Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
Where Human Sleep Went Wrong: A conversation with David Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, about how to sleep
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The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
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Brain medicines
What happens to your brain under anesthesia? - Futurity
New findings challenge the widespread belief that anesthesia is simply a deep sleep. The reality is more complex, researchers found.
How to Know If You're a Morning Person
“Extreme larks” get up naturally when some people have hardly gone to bed.
Two billion humans are doing something bizarre right now: sleeping | Aeon Essays
It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest
The nightmares that paralyse you
Sleep paralysis has inspired paintings and horror stories. Now scientists are starting to understand why people wake from dreams unable to move.
The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'
For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?
How Apple Watch sleep apnea detection works and why it matters | Empirical Health
80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.