You fall asleep at an appropriate hour, giving yourself enough time to rest before a big day ahead — only to be jolted awake by racing thoughts: Was your friend secretly offended by your joke? Are ...

Dr. Shelby Harris, a board-certified Behavioral Sleep Medicine specialist, joins "CBS Mornings" to share tips on maximizing ...

Waking up in the middle of the night can be really disruptive to your sleep cycle – but one entrepreneur has shared three simple tricks that helped him get back to sleep ...

People complain to me ceaselessly - they can’t get back to sleep. Yet returning to sleep engages the same tools that help you first fall asleep. If sleep is as necessary to life as food, why is ...

What should you do if you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep? This is one of the most common—and frustrating—forms of insomnia. It turns out there’s a biological reason for ...

The American Urological Association recommends that we cut back on fluids between two and four hours before bed. This is ...

The following story is excerpted from TIME’s special edition, The Science of Sleep, which is available at Amazon. Anyone who has nodded off on the subway, faked alertness in a meeting at work or ...

The first uncomfortable truth of sleep is this: We can’t get to sleep, we can’t life-hack our way to sleep, and we can’t will our way to sleep. Instead, we fall asleep much like we fall in love or ...