sleep

With the sun now setting just after 4pm, how do you make the most of shorter Maine days and longer nights?

Nap Lab has released a new set of data showing the quality of sleep every state's residents regularly get, and Maine ranks near the bottom.

We could certainly be known for far worse things than that.

Who doesn't want to stay in a lil' red caboose?!

Sleeping in on the Weekend Could be a Good Thing

Have you started the day with your mind racing from a nightmare? You're not alone. I find that most of mine happen right before I wake up in the morning. Guess what? We may be sleeping too much. According to the study in Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology, those sleeping more than 9 hours a night have more nightmares. Als...

According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) we are not getting enough sleep. Maine residents came in 20th on the list for not getting the proper amount of sleep each night.

You wake up in the morning and you have a song stuck in your head, what to do? New research suggests chew gum. You could be humming a tune anytime of the day, over and over again, and it’s driving you crazy, well, chew gum.

I've noticed ‘crows’ have been in the trees again by the radio station. Every year around this time thousands of crows show up in the early morning hours and then are gone by late morning.

Everyone dreams and there are a lot of triggers that make people dream differently. Science has discovered the longer you sleep, the weirder your dreams become. As the night goes on, from early to late night, dreams become more bizarre.

A new study from the American Academy of Pediatrics says that teens need more sleep to function, and that middle and high school students should not start school until 8:30 a.m.

NASA has revealed that astronauts in space suffer from sleep deprivation. According to a 10 year study it shows astronauts get an average of only six hours of sleep a night. NASA orders crew members to get at least 8.5 hour of sleep but that’s not happening.

It has been known for a long time that men and women dream and have nightmares but Psychologists now say they have very different dreams and nightmares. A study done at the University of Montreal says men dream more about natural and environmental disasters and war, women dream more about relationship conflicts.

A new study by Duke University says women wake up grumpier than men because women need more sleep than men.  The study found lack of sleep for women can lead to heart  disease and depression, but the amount of sleep a person needs depends on the person, but generally women need at least 20 more minutes a day than a man does.

Since 1999, the first day after Daylight Saving Time is National Napping Day. For everyone the time change means more sunlight at the end of the day, but for some, it means they lost an hour of sleep and they need rest. If you are feeling the effects of the time change, then take a nap.

Getting an extra couple of minutes of sleep in the morning by hitting the snooze button seems like a good idea but doctors are saying, 'Don’t use the snooze.'  Some people hit the snooze button 3 or 4 times in the morning giving them and ‘extra’ 15 or 20 minutes of sleep, or so they think.  Sleep expert Dr. Neil Stanley explains like this; ‘If you hit the snooze button you may go back into a deep