Le Journal du Sommeil

Why you wake at 3 a.m. — and why that is not the problem

Waking in the night is normal and happens to everyone. Staying awake for an hour afterwards is not. The difference is decided in the first ten...

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Why you wake at 3 a.m. — and why that is not the problem

Waking in the night is normal and happens to everyone. Staying awake for an hour afterwards is not. The difference is decided in the first ten...

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Tangled hair in the morning: what eight hours of friction does to it

You change position twenty to forty times a night. Each time, your hair drags across cotton. What that mechanism produces — and what it does not.

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Tangled hair in the morning: what eight hours of friction does to it

You change position twenty to forty times a night. Each time, your hair drags across cotton. What that mechanism produces — and what it does not.

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Which position should you sleep in when your lower back aches?

On your back, your side, your front: what each position asks of your lower back, and the gap you need to fill in each. No therapeutic...

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Which position should you sleep in when your lower back aches?

On your back, your side, your front: what each position asks of your lower back, and the gap you need to fill in each. No therapeutic...

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Dry mouth in the morning: you breathed through it all night

The sore throat and pasty mouth of the morning do not come from dry bedroom air. They come from how you breathed for eight hours —...

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Dry mouth in the morning: you breathed through it all night

The sore throat and pasty mouth of the morning do not come from dry bedroom air. They come from how you breathed for eight hours —...

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White, pink or brown noise: which one actually helps you sleep?

It is not noise that wakes you, it is a change in noise. What continuous sound masks, what it does not, and which of the three...

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White, pink or brown noise: which one actually helps you sleep?

It is not noise that wakes you, it is a change in noise. What continuous sound masks, what it does not, and which of the three...

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What temperature should you sleep at? Cooler than you think

Your body has to lose heat in order to fall asleep. That is a mechanism, not a preference — and it explains why a bedroom at...

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What temperature should you sleep at? Cooler than you think

Your body has to lose heat in order to fall asleep. That is a mechanism, not a preference — and it explains why a bedroom at...

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