Dreams defy exact scientific analysis

A furry hot-water bottle? Or a restless snoring pest? Sharing a bed with a dog isn’t ideal for everyone, but it certainly warms the soul, says Bethany Stone

One in three adults in the UK struggles to sleep through the night; among them is writer Nick Pope. Could embracing the multibillion-pound sleep economy fix his night-time woes or would obsessively attempting to crack bedtime cause another problem altogether?

If there was a time when the sign of a good night’s sleep was getting your seven to nine hours, science has delivered a new set of metrics. From sleep quality to the regularity of your bedtime, we’ve read the research so you don’t have to

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

If you often find yourself lying awake into the small hours, with thoughts and to-do lists whizzing endlessly around your mind, you’re not alone. In the UK, a 2024 study in The Lancet Diabetes & Endoc