But first, we need to address that waking up is normal. 'Sleeping through the night' is normally unachievable, because in reality all of us wake up at different times during the night, but in ...

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It’s a projection—shimmering at the edges, ready to disappear. But here’s the question: what if we could wake up like that in the waking world? What if we could peer at the stories we tell ...

Sleep experts have even given it a name — Wakefulness After Sleep Onset (WASO). “Waking up at nighttime is a normal part of sleep physiology,” explains Dr. Sujay Kansagra, a double-board ...

The stress hormone cortisol is not activated when waking up in the morning, a new study has suggested. Instead, cortisol is activated in the hours before we wake up in order to prepare us for the day ...

Ms. Ahmed is a student at Islamic University of Gaza. She wrote from Deir al Balah, Gaza. During the war in Gaza, a place called Taqat in Deir al Balah became a lifeline for me. Taqat, which means ...

For many years it has been generally accepted that waking up results in a stimulus to release hormone cortisol - a phenomenon called the “cortisol awakening response” (CAR). This response has ...

Too often I wake up after a perfect eight-hour slumber as fresh as a corpse. Then I spend the first two hours of my day behaving like a reanimated one. So what can we do to maximise morning pizazz?

Waking up does not activate an increase in the release of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol does, however, increase in the hours prior to wakening as part of the body’s preparation for the next ...

EVER wake up in the night and stare at the ceiling? You're certainly not alone. And you might have wondered if this is a sign of serious issue. If you find yourself needing to use the toilet a lot ...

Our brains want to continue to finish the deeper sleep before waking up.” Kilkenny shared that a short period in stage two can be restorative to mind and body, but entering stage 3 can cause ser ...