Most people assume the path to better energy and focus starts with hitting snooze one more time. Yet the average person gets ...

With all those "Wake Up With Me" videos crowding your social media feeds, it’s easy to feel like everyone else just hops out of bed in the morning, bright-eyed, glowy, and ready to attack the day. And ...

Here, sleep pros answer the big question of what is sleep inertia and how you can move past the groggy feeling with six tips. Waking up can be hard, even under the best of circumstances. But sometimes ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a reasonably healthy 76-year-old woman. I eat a healthy diet, avoid processed sugar, and work out usually twice a week, plus one day with a personal trainer. I am a breast cancer ...

Most experts recommend getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night — so why do we sometimes get a full night’s rest and still wake up feeling tired? It may have something to do with the point in the ...

Called sleep inertia, it happens when you suddenly snap out of REM sleep — a deeper stage of sleep where you dream and your body repairs itself. During that sleep cycle your body is flooded with high ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a reasonably healthy 76-year-old woman. I eat a healthy diet, avoid processed sugar, and work out usually twice a week, plus one day with a personal trainer. I am a breast cancer ...

Taking a nap is a roll of the dice; sometimes, you rise refreshed, and other times, you wake more exhausted than before you closed your eyes. There’s a reason for that discrepancy, according to Thomas ...

Sleep inertia occurs when your body is fighting to stay asleep when you want it to wake up. It generally feels like a temporary disorientation and drop in performance or mood after you wake up. Here's ...