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Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares
You wake up, but you can’t move a muscle. Lying in bed, you’re totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening. There’s a crushing weight on your chest that’s humanoid. And it’s...
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Lucky Sleep Mutants Need Fewer Zzzzzs
No one knows why some lucky folks thrive on five or six hours of sleep per night, while the rest of us suffer if we don’t get eight hours of shut-eye. But now scientists have discovered a genetic...
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DIY Home Sleep Research With Cameras, Accelerometers, EEGs
If you sleep like a princess, and wonder what keeps you tossing and turning at night, perhaps there’s a gadget that can find the pea under your mattress. Companies have begun selling electronics...
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Violent Dreams May Precede Brain Disease
Vivid, violent dreams can portend brain disorders by half a century, a new study finds. The result, reported in the August 10 Neurology, highlights how some neurological diseases may take hold decades...
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The Brain’s Secret to Sleeping Like a Log
In this clamorous modern world, heavy sleepers have an advantage: They can snooze despite noisy neighbors and car alarms, and they’re capable of conking out on a red-eye flight to awake refreshed and...
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All-Nighters Make Bodies Hoard Calories
Staying up all night clearly taxes the body, but scientists have only now added up the exact bill. By measuring the actual number of calories the body expends to fuel an all-nighter versus a good...
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Sleeping Protects Memories From Corruption
“You must remember this,” Sam the piano player crooned to Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. The couple might have recalled even more about their days in Paris if they’d been napping...
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Sleep Quality May Be Tied to Covert Brain Wave
Making waves isn’t conducive to staying asleep, at least when the waves are a type of brain signal associated with being awake. A type of brain activity known as an alpha wave emanates from the back of...
View ArticleSleepwalkers Replay Day’s Learning
A video of what appears to be a sleeping woman doing a modified, slow-motion funky robot dance in bed may represent the most direct evidence yet that minds replay a day's learning during slumber.
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Insomniac Cavefish May Hold Clues to Human Sleep Disorders
Blind Mexican cavefish sleep much less than closely related species that live near the surface, according to a study that involved shaking aquariums to keep fish awake. By breeding the fish with their...
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Sleep-Deprived Neurons May Shut Down, Even When You’re Awake
When deprived of sleep, parts of the human brain may doze off, secretly snatching moments of slumber even as people seem to be awake. That could explain why our sleep-deprived selves are so cognitively...
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New Method Found for Reading Your Body’s Clock
Tracking the levels of 50 hormones and amino acids in blood samples can reveal a body's internal time.
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Scientists Decode Dreams With Brain Scans
It used to be that what happened in your dreams was your own little secret. But today scientists report for the first time that they've successfully decoded details of people's dreams using brain scans.
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