Mark Serrels is an award-winning Senior Editorial Director focused on all things culture. He covers TV, movies, anime, video games and whatever weird things are happening on the internet. He ...

Most people follow a monophasic sleep pattern, meaning they sleep one time per day. Alternatively, many people sleep twice per day in a biphasic sleep pattern. People who sleep biphasically usually ...

A polyphasic sleep schedule breaks sleep into multiple short periods each day instead of one long stretch at night. These schedules can lead to sleep deprivation and health risks because they often ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Polyphasic sleep ...

Daylight savings ends on November 5: Sleep schedules be warned. Soon, and probably to your dismay, you’ll find yourself looking out the window at 4:30 p.m., wondering why it’s so dark, and your daily ...

Polyphasic sleep breaks up sleep into more than two episodes throughout the day and night. Polyphasic sleepers might sleep as many as six times a day, in some combination of two- to three-hour blocks ...

Can knowledge of how our ancestors slept truly lead us to a life of more natural—and healthy —sleeping patterns? Authors on the Internet have been exploring that possibility, writing a spate of recent ...