Tension: Falling asleep to the television feels like a harmless habit, but it often signals deeper patterns in how someone ...

As people get older, falling asleep can become more and more difficult. With age comes more reasons for them to feel stressed, lonely, or need to escape the vicious cycle of thoughts that makes it ...

If you're anything like me, you fall asleep in specific stages. First is wind-down time, where I'll read a book, watch a show, or scroll on my phone (even though I know it's bad for me). This lets my ...

One in three adults don’t get enough sleep – and the consequences may be deadly. Drowsy driving contributes to hundreds of deaths in the U.S. each year and tens of thousands of crashes, according to ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Many people ...

Longer, darker days during this time of year leave many people feeling sluggish. But people still may find themselves struggling to fall asleep at night, their minds racing about upcoming family ...

The brain doesn’t gradually fall asleep. Instead, it reaches a tipping point at which it rapidly transitions from wakefulness to sleep in a matter of minutes – a discovery that could improve our ...

Falling asleep used to be looked at as something that happened gradually until sleep set in, but researchers have found that is not the case. After you close your eyes, there is actually a certain ...

As people get older, getting quality, restful sleep can become increasingly difficult. Age brings new sleep challenges, but there are many who find that listening to white noise can improve their ...