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• Discover How You Can Sleep Soundly
  Sleeping Secrets explains how to determine what your body needs in order to get the sleep it requires.
  
  
• The Definition of Sleep and What it Does
  Sleep may be defined as that stage in which a person is supposed to experience total relaxation of body and mind. During sleep, a person is less conscious and less active but his brain is at work.
  
  
• About Sleep Research
  Should humans spend billions of dollars on sleep research just to know everything there is to know about sleeping?
  
  
• What is REM (and is it important)
  Simply said, does the brain cease to function when a person falls asleep? Is REM or rapid eye movement connected in any way to brain activity even while a person is asleep?
  
  
• Are Dreams Important
  Dreams make sleeping time exciting especially when people get to fulfill their innermost wishes through their dreams. However, dreams are sometimes frightening especially when they become violent and are no longer worth dreaming about.
  
  
• What is Circadian Rhythm
  Scientific studies have shown that the human body is primarily guided by its normal rhythms otherwise known as the circadian rhythm.
  
  
• What is Insomnia?
  People who regularly have a hard time getting some sleep no matter what they do have a sleeping illness called insomnia.
  
  
• Do You Need a Sleep Test?
  There are a lot of people who do not really know how important sleep tests are when in fact, there are lots of sleeping disorders that can affect our health and general condition.
  
  
• How Light Affects Sleep
  Research has shown that the body clock is negatively affected even if the person continues to doze off. The research into the effect of light on sleep can help foster new treatments for various sleep disorders.
  
  
• How Serious is Persistent Insomnia
  Persistent insomnia, which is sometimes called chronic insomnia, is characterized by the inability to sleep that often persists for several nights.
  
  
• What Are Snoring and Sleep Apnea
  Snoring and sleep apnea are categorized as sleep disordered breathing, snoring is not as serious as sleep apnea.
  
  
• Your Infant and Sleep (Beware of SIDS)
  Sudden Infant Death Syndrome usually takes the lives of babies less than a year old. The death remains to be unexplained amidst clinical history checks, autopsy findings and thorough investigation.
  
  
• What is Narcolepsy and Is It Treatable
  Narcolepsy is a chronic disease that attacks the brain, the main organ in the central system.
  
  
• How to Prevent Sleepwalking and Night Terrors
  Sleepwalking, also called somnambulism, can be categorized into a group of sleeping disorders called partial-arousal parasomnias.
  
  
• Sleep and the Immune System
  Why do we feel sleepy when we are sick? Is there a link between sleep and the immune system?
  
  
• What Is Lucid Dreaming
  Lucid dreaming is a common phenomenon which has been used as the theme of movies and books, and which is the focus of interest of psychologists, New Age groups, and artists alike.