A psychotherapist explains why this simple relaxation method was able to help me fall asleep fast after waking up at 3 a.m.

You fall asleep at an appropriate hour, giving yourself enough time to rest before a big day ahead — only to be jolted awake by racing thoughts: Was your friend secretly offended by your joke? Are ...

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Waking up at 3 a.m. was ruining my sleep so I tried this science-backed way to fall asleep fast again — a psychotherapist ...

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Did you have any trouble sleeping this month? Perhaps you woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back to sleep. Or maybe anxiety cost you valuable rest. If so, you're not alone. In a ...

People complain to me ceaselessly - they can’t get back to sleep. Yet returning to sleep engages the same tools that help you first fall asleep. If sleep is as necessary to life as food, why is ...

If you feel like doomscrolling has been interfering with your sleep, mental health experts recommend establishing limits ...

The first uncomfortable truth of sleep is this: We can’t get to sleep, we can’t life-hack our way to sleep, and we can’t will our way to sleep. Instead, we fall asleep much like we fall in love or ...

The following story is excerpted from TIME’s special edition, The Science of Sleep, which is available at Amazon. Anyone who has nodded off on the subway, faked alertness in a meeting at work or ...