11 Fun Facts About Dreams

The images, scenes, or stories that play out in your mind during slumber are always present during REM sleep. We have dubbed them dreams, and they can make our nighttime rest periods exciting, confusing, mystifying, and even terrifying at times. While you are trying...

What Happens When We Sleep?

Humans have been theorizing about the answer to this question for most of our recorded history.  While the jury is still out on why we need sleep, modern technological advances, especially the introduction of the electroencephalogram or EEG, made it possible for...

Spotlight On: REM Behavior Disorder

Most people know that there are several different stages of sleep.  Over the course of each night, we move in and out of the different stages in cycles.  Even though there are several stages of sleep, the sleep we get at each stage falls into only one of two...

Seeking Sleep? Rethink That Drink

It is a common misconception that having a couple glasses of wine before dinner will help you sleep.  Many people mistake the drowsy feeling that a little alcohol can bring as a quick way around insomnia, but the truth is that drinking makes you drowsy but it doesn’t...