The Peril and Promise of Sleep Paralysis

August 6, 2010

This guest post is from Ryan Hurd of DreamStudies, a website & blog devoted to exploring and explaining various sleep phenomena.  Here, Ryan discusses Sleep Paralysis, a temporary condition that can sometimes occur during the initial phases of sleep onset and wake. Sleep Paralysis is not yet a household word, despite the fact that 40% [...]

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Zeo Sleep Research Center, Part 1

August 2, 2010

Here at Zeo we are dedicated to: The science of sleep Providing the best information and services to our customers based on that science. To that end, we are actively engaged in original research that can help increase the general knowledge about sleep and the many factors that could be helping or hindering a good [...]

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Collective Wisdom for a Good Night’s Sleep

July 28, 2010

This guest post is by Alexandra Carmichael of CureTogether, a web community devoted to the idea that people can help each other live better by sharing data and experiences. Last night I couldn’t sleep. I lay awake, trying to relax my muscles, feeling my heart beat echo through my body. It feels like a car [...]

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Sleep Architecture, Part Deux

July 26, 2010

A little while ago, I wrote a post about sleep architecture. After having read through it again myself, I was left wondering… okay, that’s great, but how does knowing about sleep architecture help me sleep? Let’s see if we can get an answer to that one. Waking Up I know it can be frustrating to [...]

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The Science Behind “Inception”

July 23, 2010

I decided to work late on Monday when I saw the movie Inception. Not only was the topic of interest to me (sleep: my specialty!) but I kept asking if the main concepts were possible. While some aspects were pure science fiction, several points in the movie did hint at a basis in actual sleep [...]

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Calming a Racing Mind

July 19, 2010

It’s 2:45 am and I’m Wide Awake… Welcome to an episode of a “racing mind”–a major sleep stealer that can keep you awake and lying in bed for what seems like hours.  For some reason, your mind is buzzing, thinking about every minor (and major) thing in your life.  If only you could just turn [...]

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Kicking the Caffeine Habit: A Break-Up Story

July 16, 2010

For years, I didn’t go more than a day without at least a coffee in the morning; otherwise the headaches would begin.  My typical, caffeinated day looked like this: 1-2 medium sized coffees every morning 1 can or bottle of diet soda at lunch 1 small or medium iced coffee or diet soda in the [...]

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Sleep Architecture

July 12, 2010

We’re not talking about Frank Lloyd Wright drafting in his sleep, but we are talking about sleep architecture.  What does a typical night of sleep look like?  What is a sleep cycle?  How about sleep phases?  We’ll try to answer these questions here. Sleep Depth First, let’s think about what sleep looks like over the [...]

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What is Sleep Coaching?

July 9, 2010

On our homepage we feature several user testimonials about how Zeo’s coaching program, 7 Step Sleep Fitness™, helped them improve their sleep quality.  But how does it work and what do those steps look like? How it works Zeo’s Sleep Coaching program is an email plan, personalized to your sleep needs and goals, that will [...]

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Announcing the Zeology Forum

July 7, 2010

There have been lots of conversations about sleep and Zeo across the web since we launched over a year ago; we figured more people would benefit if they could find all of these conversations in one place. To that end, we’re revamping Zeology with more content for the blog and a forum to help you [...]

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