Articles on all things sleep & dreams

A client of mine falls asleep in about ten minutes flat. Every night, no trouble at all. He just does it at four in the morning. For years he was sure he had insomnia. Tried melatonin. Blackout blinds. Magnesium. Three different apps, all with the same cheerful promise that this one would finally fix him. None of it worked. Because none of it had anything to do with what was actually going on. I get some version of this on a call almost every week. Someone arrives convinced t

Sunday, four in the afternoon. A client of mine, mid-scroll, mid-spreadsheet, mid something that felt urgent and turned out not to be. He'd told himself it was a rest day. By nine he was still at it. By midnight he was wired, not tired, staring at a ceiling that wouldn't cooperate. He called it a productive Sunday. His body called it something else. He was in bed at 4am. He's not unusual. Almost every client I work with can describe their own version of this night, in their o

Why having too much control over your sleep makes things worse

Before she tells me how she feels, she tells me the number. Seventy-eight. Sleep efficiency down four points. REM was low again. This happens most weeks, with most new clients who wear a ring or a strap to bed. I ask how they slept and they open an app first, as if the app might know before they do. I don't blame them for it. I want to be clear about that before I say anything else. But there's a pattern showing up across nearly every client who comes to me holding a screensh

Why You Stay Up Late Even When You're Exhausted You're tired. You've been tired since about 3 pm. And yet here you are, lying in bed at 1 am, scrolling through nothing in particular, fully aware that tomorrow is going to be brutal. If that sounds familiar, you're dealing with what's now widely known as revenge bedtime procrastination, and you are nowhere near alone in it. I asked a community of people directly what drives this for them, and the pattern that came back was clea

By Maša Nobilo / Restful Sleep You finished the proposal. You sent the invoice. You answered the last message. You cleaned the kitchen. And now, finally, you can rest. Except you can't. You lie down, and your body is exhausted, but your mind is still running tabs. You replay the call from this afternoon. You draft tomorrow's to-do list in your head. You think about the thing you said in that meeting three weeks ago. You wonder if you're doing enough. You probably are. You pro