This is the second and final part of my a series on a better night’s sleep. Make sure to check out part 1 before continuing on to read this post.

Number five: Constrict or try to avoid taking naps during the day

Taking naps in the day can have a horribly negative affect on sleep [...]

This is the first of a two part guide on a better night’s sleep.

Hey friend, guess what? You don’t have to be doomed to tossing and turning every single night. Just check out these easy suggestions for a better night’s sleep. They include creating a schedule for sleep, and making sure you have some [...]

For one reason or another, a popular pastime of many people has been to speculate on sleep and its function. Thus, it’s not surprising that a lot of information on how to sleep less and sleeping right is inaccurate and full of falsities. It’s important that we therefore look at all these myths and analyze [...]

Our contemporary lives in this modern era are rather demanding, and sometimes it seems like sleeping less is the only possible solution. So many of us have endless to-do lists, and cutting back and finding time to relax and just chill can seem almost impossible. It may seem simple to just say, “Yeah, I need [...]

If you depend on medical treatment and drugs to alleviate any number of chronic or minor health conditions, you may be one of many people whose sleep and general awareness is impacted as a result. Therefore, you experience sleep deprivation and drowsiness during the day. You might wonder “does medication affect sleep?”

But [...]

Believe it or not, the ancient tradition of day light savings time is actually dangerous. For those of you unfamiliar, during daylight saving time we move our clocks an hour ahead. As a result, the effects of daylight saving time is that we sleep an hour less. Because this change is sudden and [...]

Believe or not, teenagers who are between 16-18 years old do in fact need 8-9 hours of sleep every night. Younger children need even more sleep and babies can often sleep the majority of the day. So for these people they should about sleep 9 hours.

But, as you enter adulthood and reach [...]

Before we learn how to sleep less, we must determine why. The real question is this: Why do we want to be able to get by on less sleep?

For some of us, it’s just a want, a desire. We hear those shocking statistics that say we spend 1/3 of our lives [...]

Be very careful with the question of how much sleep children need. I’m not qualified to answer it, so I will point you to knowledgeable sources and also give my opinion on it.

Realize that children are still in their growing phase. So while I advocate sleeping less than 8 hours for [...]

The question: “Does too much sleep make you tired?” is a good one. The best way to answer it is to think about balance. Too little sleep makes you tired, right? Therefore, too much sleep should also make you tired — following the same basic logic. So the answer is: off course [...]