The Food and Drug Administration has warned the manufacturer of melatonin-laced brownies called “Lazy Larry” that the government considers them unsafe and could seize them from store shelves. The warning letter obtained by The Associated Press was sent to the company last week. “Lazy Larry” was until J…

Have you ever thought why most pensioners have colorless dreams while those under the age of 30 dream in vivid color? Well, your TV might explain why. Japanese researchers have suggested that the type of television you watched as a child has a profound effect on the color of your dreams. Children brought up with [...]

With the novel use of a technique that uses light to control brain cells, Stanford University researchers have shown that fragmented sleep causes memory impairment in mice. Until recently scientists have been unable to tease out the effects on the brain of different yet intertwined features of sleep. But these investigators w…

Stanford study is the first to document how sleep extension affects the performance of actively competing athletes… A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that sleep extension is beneficial to athletic performance, reaction time, vigor, fatigue and mood in collegiate basketball players. The study is the …

Falling, flying, fleeing – they’re familiar dream motifs, but what do they mean? The psychologist Ian Wallace reveals all… We all dream We have about five dream episodes per night. If you sleep for seven or eight hours you go through five sleep cycles, and in each of those sleep cycles you will dream for [...]