Have you ever noticed that you start feeling sleepy around the same time every night, even when nobody tells your body that it’s bedtime? Perhaps you wake up a few minutes before your alarm clock goes off or perhaps you…
You eat lunch, walk back to your desk, open your laptop, and suddenly find it harder to keep your eyes open than they were an hour ago. If you’ve ever found yourself asking “why do I feel sleepy after lunch?”…
You were asleep an hour ago. Now you’re staring at the ceiling. It’s 3:07 AM. You check the clock again, as if you made a mistake checking the time before. You didn’t. And somehow, this keeps happening. If you’ve ever…
Your eyes are heavy. Your body is tired. After all, you’ve been slumped in work throughout the day. You finally come to bed, but you can’t seem to get yourself to sleep You close your eyes and prepare to fall…
You finally fall asleep. Perhaps you were so exhausted that you could hardly touch the pillow before you closed your eyes. Then, you suddenly find yourself staring at the clock in the middle of the night. It’s 3:07 a.m. You…
You’ve slept for eight hours and your brain still hasn’t nudged you that it’s morning. And your alarm clock may be what gets you up every day. Your body has its own internal clock as well. Your brain has one of its own, and one of the things…
What if the best way to take coffee isn’t by drinking and staying up, but by drinking and then going to sleep? It sounds crazy, because coffee is supposed to wake you up while sleeping does the opposite. However, if you combine the two in the right order, you may be able to achieve something truly…
You slept for 8 hours. You woke up feeling great, had some breakfast, responded to your emails, worked, studied, or whatever else your morning routine consisted of. And then, as the clock struck around 2 or 3 PM, you find yourself growing increasingly sleepy. Your focus begins to drift. You’re attention is…
It‘s 11:47 p.m. You should have been asleep an hour ago. Instead, you are on the couch scrolling through your phone, and suddenly you realize something: You need something sweet. Not an apple or a serving of nuts, not the vegetables sitting quietly in your fridge. You want cookies or chips…
The lights are turned off, your eyelids close, you stop responding to the world around you and, from an observer’s point of view, it may seem as if the activity in your brain is simply switched off. But this is not the case. Although the organization of this activity changes, your brain remains highly active throughout the duration…
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