"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." IF YOU ASK someone to describe the process of falling asleep, you might get one of two extreme answers.

Sleep is something the majority of us look forward to. At the end of a long day (or a long night), there often is no better feeling than crawling under the covers, knowing that you have nowhere to be ...

The brain doesn’t gradually fall asleep. Instead, it reaches a tipping point at which it rapidly transitions from wakefulness to sleep in a matter of minutes – a discovery that could improve our ...

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 ...