Sleep Serious

How many times have you experienced waking up in the morning feeling refreshed as you seem to have a good, restful sleep, but it turned sour when you tried moving your head and feel the stinging effects of neck pain? Chances are, you have tried this at least once in your lifetime, and it’s quite [...]

Sleep will always be beneficial to the body. The amount of sleep a person has every day will determine the amount of energy that he/she will be able to use during the entire day. The quality of sleep matters, too, as it could determine how restful a person’s sleep has been. Yet, in reality, sleeping [...]

Ever wonder what the real culprit is behind your seemingly endless sleepless nights? No matter how you wish to sleep and try your best to do it, you simply cannot have that relaxing sleep that you’ve been wanting for so long. Cortisol is considered the “anti-sleep hormone.” As the name implies, the more cortisol level [...]

Simply put, sleep efficiency is the ratio taken from the time you spent lying in bed with the actual time you are sleeping till the moment you wake up the following day. There are a lot of debates regarding what is the best sleep efficiency, and tests have been used to check the correlation between [...]

Have you ever experienced lying in bed, staring at a single spot in the ceiling, wishing yourself to be asleep, but ending up tossing and turning all night long? When counting jumping sheep in your mind won’t work, chances are you are in for a long, restless night. Having sleepless nights does happen but in [...]

To the new moms and dads, getting your little tot to sleep could be hard since they tend to wake up very often especially in the first couple of months. This may be all right in the first few days since new parents seem so eager to play with their baby, but as reality kicks [...]

Sleep paralysis could be terrifying to say the least. This is characterized by being not able to move on the bed even if you are awake or half-awake. Although generally not harmful, it does leave you feeling stressed and worn out the moment you fully wake up and are able to move again. These incidents [...]

Concussions happen when there is blunt-force trauma to the head. It might be caused by moving objects hitting your head with a hard impact, or it could be caused by falling down and hitting your head hard on the floor. It is also common in vehicular accidents as the head usually makes an impact on [...]

If you ask most insomniacs or elderly people who just couldn’t get a good night’s sleep what’s the best of all sleep aids, melatonin would most probably be their answer. Although mild sedatives are also effective sleep-inducers, melatonin has gained more popularity in the market. Perhaps one of the reasons why melatonin is popular with [...]

Oftentimes, when individuals (most especially insomniacs) can’t get any sleep, diphenhydramine has always been the most readily available solution. Diphenhydramine is an over-the-counter drug that’s meant to counteract allergies, but at the same time it also causes drowsiness. This is the reason why diphehydramine has been a very popular sleep-inducer in the market. However, although [...]