Hacker News with Generative AI: Sleep

Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds (psypost.org)
In a recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition, researchers at Northwestern University showed that a smartphone app using sensory cues can significantly increase the frequency of lucid dreams—dreams in which a person is aware they are dreaming while still asleep.

Lucid Dreaming, Sleep, Neuroscience, Apps, Research

123 points by mikhael 4 days ago | 109 comments

Homeworkers get 24 more minutes of sleep a day (bbc.co.uk)
Homeworkers are using the time saved by not commuting to stay longer in bed, new figures suggest.

Work-Life Balance, Remote Work, Sleep, Commuting

9 points by penguin_booze 10 days ago | 7 comments

The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury (nature.com)
Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study1 involving both mice and humans.

Neuroscience, Medicine, Sleep, Heart Attacks

365 points by gmays 11 days ago | 245 comments

Association between sleep duration trajectories and successful aging; study (biomedcentral.com)
Insufficient or excessive sleep duration are associated with increased risk of individual adverse outcomes. However, it remains largely unknown whether sleep duration trajectories are associated with overall health among older adults. This study aimed to examine the association between sleep duration trajectories and successful aging.

Health, Sleep, Aging, Research

5 points by gnabgib 13 days ago | 0 comments

You might want to stop making your bed in the morning (thestar.com)
Even if you live by yourself, you’re never sleeping alone.

Sleep, Health, Hygiene, Lifestyle

28 points by amichail 14 days ago | 18 comments

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023) (academic.oup.com)
A large body of research has demonstrated that both subjective and objective estimates of average sleep duration are associated with mortality risk [1–9].

Sleep, Health, Science, Mortality, Research

386 points by yamrzou 19 days ago | 247 comments

How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier (sleepfoundation.org)
A number of factors may impact your ability to go to sleep early. Perhaps you are not a morning person, or you have work or family obligations that keep you up late. Some sleep or mental health disorders, such as insomnia or anxiety, can make falling asleep difficult. In other instances, nighttime may be your only time to relax, and so you engage in revenge bedtime procrastination and stay up late, which then negatively impacts your next day.

Sleep, Health, Habits, Time Management

267 points by alecco 20 days ago | 162 comments

The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury (nature.com)
Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study1 involving both mice and humans. This heavy slumber helps recovery by easing inflammation in the heart, the study found.

Science, Health, Sleep, Brain

10 points by gnabgib 22 days ago | 0 comments

Why birds do not fall while sleeping (cnrs.fr)
The only permanent bipeds of the animal kingdom alongside humans, birds have an extraordinary sense of balance. How do these direct descendants of the dinosaurs maintain this stability, especially when sleeping? Scientists recently succeeded in solving the mystery.

Animals, Science, Biology, Sleep

230 points by mdp2021 37 days ago | 181 comments

The 1/8th Sleep (near.blog)
The eight sleep bed is a popular self-cooling bed. Sleeping on a colder surface not only feels great but often improves sleep as well. This post discusses a cheaper homemade option that I use instead.

Sleep, DIY, Health

195 points by asats 39 days ago | 54 comments

An unbroken night's sleep is a myth. Here's what good sleep looks like (theconversation.com)
What do you imagine a good night’s sleep to be?

Sleep, Health, Science, Lifestyle

31 points by gnabgib 43 days ago | 0 comments

Self-experiment with L-theanine: effect on sleep and cognition (metasophi.com)
Many supplements are said to improve sleep, but how can I know if they work for my individual case if the effects are not obvious? To answer this, I ran a self-experiment with L-theanine using this platform.

Self-Experimentation, Sleep, Cognition, Supplements, L-theanine

77 points by sheefrex 45 days ago | 43 comments

Α phase-locked auditory stimulation to treat symptoms of sleep onset insomnia (nature.com)
Sleep onset insomnia is a pervasive problem that contributes significantly to the poor health outcomes associated with insufficient sleep.

Sleep, Neuroscience, Medicine, Treatment

22 points by PaulHoule 47 days ago | 18 comments

Can Brown Noise Turn Off Your Brain? (nytimes.com)
The noise sounds like wind, or heavy rain, or the steady hum of an airline jet. It sounds like water rushing somewhere in the distance, like a gentle fan ruffling currents of cool air. It’s soothing, steady, slightly rumbly.

Neuroscience, Sound, Sleep

16 points by thenobsta 51 days ago | 2 comments

Another Reason Why You Should Sleep on It Before Making an Important Decision (today.duke.edu)
Science proves, once again, that we are easily deceived by first impressions.

Decision Making, Psychology, Sleep, Science

43 points by gnabgib 59 days ago | 17 comments

Spinning the Night Self (aeon.co)
After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours

Sleep, Nighttime, Personal Experiences, Writing, Self-Reflection

68 points by prismatic 66 days ago | 10 comments

Apple Watch can detect sleep apnea (appleinsider.com)
Sleep apnea is estimated to affect more than one billion people worldwide and is linked to a decline in cardiac function, an increased risk for diabetes, and an overall lower quality of life — here's how the Apple Watch hopes to fix that.

Health, Wearable Technology, Sleep, Apple Watch

17 points by alwillis 73 days ago | 4 comments

Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf] (bmjpublichealth.bmj.com)

Sleep, Health, Cognition, Lifestyle

285 points by susam 74 days ago | 185 comments

My tryst with polyphasic sleeping (2010) (akshatrathi.com)

Sleep, Personal Experiences, Lifestyle

4 points by thunderbong 79 days ago | 0 comments

Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline' (news.yale.edu)

Sleep, Neuroscience, Brain, Memory, Cognition

434 points by PaulHoule 80 days ago | 137 comments

The reason sleep-deprivation kills is in the gut (bigthink.com)