Have you ever been drifting off to a good night’s sleep, only to be jerked awake suddenly? If so, take comfort in the fact that a hypnic jerk is not unusual. I once experienced a hypnic jerk when I was finally dozing off after a particularly strenuous film...
Learning how to remember dreams turns out to be more of a matter of conditioning yourself to remember them. Several simple methods can help you improve your dream memories. Some techniques even take it a step further and help you control the dream action. These...
Sleep is one of the most important activities of our life. We spend a third of our life doing it and it is critical for enjoying the time when we are awake. In a sense, sleep is like being in a relationship with our future self. Each day, we know that we will fall...
What’s fascinating about the human condition is that we are inextricably linked to the cycles of our planet. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the circadian rhythms of our body, which follow a 24-hour cycle and entail an internal circadian clock that regulates...
Within the last 100 years, sleep scientists have begun to chart the various stages of sleep. In particular, two main sleep stages have been discovered, namely REM sleep and non-REM sleep. Furthermore, within the non-REM stage, 3 stages have been proposed to...
Deep sleep refers to the period within each sleep cycle where our brain is producing its lowest frequency delta waves, also known as slow-waves. Even though this is one of the most important stages of sleep, it makes up less than 20% of our overall sleep. Thus, while...
