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Better Sleep: Helpful Suggestions - There are a number of things you can do to enhance your sleep. Authorities from the National Institutes of Health and Mayo Clinic, to mattress manufacturers agree that the following steps will help you to achieve a deep, restful sleep, if you apply them consistently and do not have any health factors that interfere with sleep.

Better Dreaming and Dream Recall: Helpful Suggestions Before Sleeping - In order to enhance your dreaming and dream recall, first review the suggestions for better sleep, because the factors that interfere with sleeping also interfere with dreaming.

Dream Journal Tips - Start each entry the night before, as you are getting ready for sleep. Record the date (and place, if you're not at home) and a word or two about how you feel as you settle in for sleep.

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Sleep - In many ancient cultures, including Rome, sleep was considered a divine gift, sleep has been recognized as necessary to health, and as a multipurpose essential part of life.

Sleep: Benefits of a Good Night's Sleep - Sleep is required for survival. Many different healthy and beneficial activities occur during restful sleep. Neurons may repair themselves, or dispose of the accumulation of toxins from daily activity. Sleep may permit the brain to exercise rarely used neural connections to prevent their deterioration.

Sleep: What If I Usually Don’t Get Enough? - Even the most boring activity shouldn't cause you to feel drowsy. If you routinely fall asleep almost immediately after going to bed, you may have gone beyond sleep debt into sleep deprivation, or you may have a sleep disorder.

Sleep Debt: Overdrawn at the Energy Bank - Some banks require a minimum balance in order to keep your account open and active. Your body and mind work in a similar way when it comes to sleep.

Sleep and Your Sleep Cycle: What Can Interfere with a Good Night’s Sleep? - There are lots of things that can adversely impact your ability to get the sleep you need: things you consume, environmental factors, lifestyle, and stress can each interfere with a good night's sleep.

Circadian Rhythm - Most of us have a biological clock that actually works on a 25-hour cycle rather than one that coincides with the length of a 24-hour day in which we are (ideally) active for about 16 hours, and sleeping for about 8 hours.

Better Dreaming and Dream Recall: Helpful Suggestions on Awakening - The first few moments after waking are crucial to recalling your dreams fully. After waking, but before getting out of bed, spend a few moments remembering what you were dreaming.

Losing Sleep: Some Basic Facts - Nearly ten years ago, in May 1997, CNN reported that sleep problems were becoming an epidemic—the #1 health-related problem in the U.S. In 2002, according to the National Sleep Foundation, almost 74% of Americans reported suffering from insufficient sleep.

Insomnia: what is it? - Do you have trouble falling asleep? Staying asleep? Waking up too early? A combination of any or all of these problems? If so, you may have insomnia like approximately 60% of American adults do some nights, and 30% many nights, making insomnia the most common sleep disorder.

Insomnia: What if I Have It? - If you frequently or routinely have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, whether caused by a health problem, habit, behavior, or extreme stress or life changes, you probably have the sleep disorder called insomnia.

Insomnia: Acute or Chronic? - The sleep disorder known as insomnia has been divided into two types—primary and secondary—based on cause. Primary insomnia is insomnia without any apparent other medical condition or direct cause other than stress or sleep cycle disruption from something like travel (jet lag).

Insomnia: Sleep Aid Treatments - If you are plagued with insomnia, there are several potential treatments available. Which one is most likely to work for you depends on whether your insomnia is acute or chronic, primary or secondary. If your insomnia is acute, or due to short-term life changes or stress, the treatment is different than if it is chronic or caused by some other physical or psychological condition.

Insomnia: Therapy Treatments - In addition to sleep aid treatments for insomnia, there are three main types of therapy treatments which may be recommended by your health care provider, depending on the type of insomnia you have (acute or chronic, primary or secondary).

Insomnia: What Can I Do for Myself? - While there are several different professional services that can help combat your insomnia, there are also things you can do for yourself. Start by examining your sleep habits and your sleep environment. Do you have good sleep habits?

Sleep Apnea—What Is It? - Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder often associated with loud snoring, though not all snorers have sleep apnea. Those snorers who do have sleep apnea most often have the form called obstructive sleep apnea, in which the windpipe collapses due to suction from an obstruction of the effort to inhale.

Sleep Apnea—A Closer Look - In addition to disrupted sleep, the sleep disorder called obstructive sleep apnea, characterized by loud snoring and/or periodic snorting or choking sounds, can cause headaches or dry throat in the morning, a lack of interest in sex, personality changes, depression, deteriorating mental functioning, high blood pressure, heartbeat irregularities, an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes, excessive daytime drowsiness, the usual signs of a lack of restful sleep (irritability, difficulty concentrating, remembering things, and learning, mood swings, and excessive daytime drowsiness), and a 2 – 3 times greater risk of being involved in an auto accident due to drowsiness.

Sleep Apnea—Treatments for Mild Cases - In mild cases of the sleep disorder obstructive sleep apnea may respond to simple treatment such as losing weight or sleeping on one side or the other rather than on your back. Other steps that may help alleviate symptoms include avoiding sedatives, and not drinking or smoking.

Sleep Apnea—Treatments for Moderate to Severe Cases - One of the treatments that may be suggested for moderate to severe cases of the sleep disorder obstructive sleep apnea is Continual Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). CPAP involves the use of an air mask worn over the nose during sleep.

Restless Legs Syndrome—What is it? - The third most common sleep disorder, after insomnia and sleep apnea is called restless legs syndrome or RLS. RLS is characterized by unpleasant sensations in the feet and legs variously described as "prickly," "tingly," "creeping," "burning," "crawling," or "itching."

Restless Legs Syndrome—A Closer Look - Symptoms of the sleep disorder called restless legs syndrome (RLS) tend to get worse not only with age, but with inactivity or late in the day. Relief of symptoms may come from walking, flexing, stretching, rubbing, or jiggling the legs and feet.

Harness The Power Of Your Dreams - Harness The Power Of Your Dreams explores how you can use your dream experiences to achieve your goals. It looks at the techniques of feeding the subconscious mind with knowledge and information relating to your goals and how to influence the content of your dreams to help you realise them.

Sleep and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - There's no doubt that improving the quality of your sleep can lessen the effect of CFS. But it's a "chicken and egg" situation. Does improving the quality of our sleep help CFS? Or is it the other way around? This article attempts to untangle some answers to that question and present the facts. Intended as information only, qualified medical advice should always be sought.

Powerful Tools For Lucid Dreaming - Learn some of the most powerful techniques used for lucid dreaming.

Is Your Insomnia Just a Bad Habit? - Many of us that suffer with insomnia can actually pinpoint the time it started. It could be the death of a loved one, exams or a stressful relationship. But ever since then we have not been able to sleep well. Even if the triggering event has passed and no longer concerns us, our sleep continues to suffer.

Lucid Dreaming - The Importance of Dream Recall - Learn the importance of dream recall when learning to lucid dream.

Nightmares? Night Terrors? What's the difference? - There is a huge difference between nightmares and night terrors. There is also a difference in the way they are best handled by the parent or carer.

Do Your Dreams Have a Hidden Meaning? - Have you ever told people, "I never dream"? Well you're wrong. The fact is everybody dreams every night. You just may not be able to remember your dreams. Don't worry too much if this is the case. Not remembering dreams doesn't mean you're abnormal or unnatural in any way. While most people do remember their dreams, the memory is fleeting and occurs mainly when the sleeper first awakens.

Don’t Just Lie in Bed Worrying. It Keeps You Awake! - There are many things that can affect your sleep but probably the worst of them is worry. Worry about your job, your relationship, your finances and of course worry about not being able to go to sleep. People say to me “I can’t stop worrying! As soon as my head touches the pillow I start to worry.....”

How to Stop Taking Sleeping Pills and Stay Sane - Over a million people worldwide rely on some form of prescription sleep medication. Many of these could sleep well or better without it. The trouble is these drugs are so habit forming, they don’t know how to stop taking them. They can’t get off the merry-go-round.

Symptoms of Narcolepsy - Often unrecognized and misdiagonosed, this sleep disorder has been the source of trauma in many victims' lives. What, then is narcolepsy and what are the symptoms of this disorder?

nREM and REM: Sleep types - In 1952 Drs. Aserinsky and Kleitman, who were studying infants, noted the phenomenon that has come to be known as “rapid eye movement” and associated this movement with a particular stage of sleep, called “REM sleep” or stage 5 sleep, for this characteristic jerky movement of the eye muscles. The other 4 stages of sleep are all considered non-rapid eye movement sleep or nREM sleep [LINK: nREM Sleep—stages 1 – 4].

nREM Sleep—stages 1 – 4 - During a normal, good night’s sleep, you pass through all four stages, plus REM sleep [LINK: REM Sleep—Stage 5]. The first four stages, nREM sleep, last about 90 – 120 minutes in the first cycle through the sleep stages, each stage lasting approximately 5 – 15 minutes, after which there is a brief period of REM sleep. However, it has been suggested that the first four stages of sleep do not occur in sequence immediately followed by REM sleep. Instead, you may progress through stages 1 – 4, then revert to stage 3, followed by stage 2, and then REM sleep. This sequence of sleep stages repeats in cycles throughout the night, but with changes in the duration of some stages as you progress through each cycle. In general, deep sleep, stages 3 and 4, decreases in length, while REM sleep increases. During a single night’s sleep, you may go through the cycle of sleep stages 4 – 5 times.

REM Sleep—Stage 5 - REM sleep is usually of short duration during the first cycle of the night through the sleep stages, starting at about 10 minutes long. However, as you progress through additional cycles of sleep stages, the duration of REM sleep increases to approximately 60 minutes during the last sleep stage sequence of the night. Typically, there are 4 – 5 cycles of sleep stages per night, with nREM sleep stages 3 and 4 decreasing in length as REM sleep increases.

EEG and Brainwaves - Electroencephalography, and its record, the electroencephalogram (both abbreviated EEG) document the electrical activity of your brain, also known as electromagnetic oscillations.

Beta waves - Beta waves represent the normal waking consciousness of a very active brain, focused outside the mind or body.

Alpha waves - Alpha waves represent phased and synchronous brain activity in a brain that is awake but relaxed, often with eyes closed.

Theta waves - Theta waves are representative of slow brain activity, common in children between 2 and 5 when awake, and are a bridge between awakened states and sleep.

Delta waves - Delta waves are the lowest frequency brain waves and are characteristic of deep sleep.

Polysomnography: Tracking sleep cycles and stages - Polysomnography, sleep study, sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome, parasomnias, ECG, electrocardiograph, electrooculograph, EOG, polysomnogram, sleep quality

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