sleep

Why do we humans strive to get eight hours of sleep a night? I never really questioned it when my parents held it as the golden standard. It’s something I took as a fact of life. But did humans always sleep that way? Turns out, we didn’t. Our obsession with getting seven to nine hours of uninterrupted sleep is a...

Sleeping eight hours a night may be the norm now but it wasn’t always that way. So see what happens when a reporter tries his hand at segmented sleep.

Have you ever realized in the middle of a dream that you’re dreaming? That’s what’s called a lucid dream. And it’s possible to teach yourself to have them. Robert Waggoner, the author of “Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self,” offered some tips.

Daylight Saving Time may be killing you. Yes, that may sound a bit dramatic… but there’s a growing number of researchers in the scientific community who say that may just be the case.

Daylight saving is more than just an annoyance. When we throw off the alignment of our internal clock, or circadian rhythm, with the real-world clock, we’re doing more damage to our bodies than we realize. And there is data to prove it. Not only does the frequency of heart attacks go up in the week or two after daylight saving...

Stress from the pandemic may be keeping you awake. But there’s new products to help you sleep better.

Struggling with sleep during this lock down? You are not alone. Social Psychologist Dr. Dylan Selterman stressed the importance of maintaining good sleeping habits while chatting with the team on “Chicago Today.” She offered these four steps to help increase your odds of falling asleep and staying asleep every night. And with all that that sleeping you’ll probably be...

Days after Fisher Price and a federal safety commission issued a warning about the potential dangers of a popular sleeper that parents have used as the solution to getting their newborn infants to sleep, a consumer group was calling for a recall, saying at least 32 infants have died.

Fisher Price and a federal safety commission are warning parents about allowing infants to sleep in the company’s Rock n’ Play bassinets, which have been lauded online in chat forums as a godsend for sleep-deprived parents of infants, after multiple deaths have been reported.

A car rolled down a hill and crashed into a Foxhall Village home after two young boys accidentally put the car in neutral. No one was injured, but the house is condemned, putting the residents out of a home.

Getting one toddler to sleep can be hard enough. But two? That’s double trouble.

If we don’t get seven to nine hours of sleep per night, it takes less than two weeks before we begin to show signs of sleep deprivation, including a bigger waistline.