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 [...]

Researchers say it could disrupt daily rhythms, affect blood sugar… Women who often work at night may face higher odds of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. The study, which focused only on women, found that the effect got stronger as the number of years spent in shift work rose, and remained even [...]

Watching television or playing video games close to bedtime can act like a jolt of caffeine to young children, making them more likely to experience difficulty falling asleep, nightmares, and daytime fatigue, a new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests. In the study, 28 percent of preschoolers who watched TV or played vide…

Why is sleep the missing link for weight loss? I’ve got one word for you: hormones. Sleep deprivation causes hormone imbalance (Leptin, Ghrelin, cortisol, you name it). These out-of-balance hormones wreak havoc with appetite and metabolism. The result? When you are low on sleep, you’re more inclined consume extra …

Sleepiness negatively impacts mood and impairs the integration of emotion and cognition when making moral judgments, even to the extent of planning revenge, a UALR psychology professor said in a research abstract presented at the SLEEP 2011 conference in Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. David Mastin, associate professor of psychology i…