Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Morning anxiety feels like it comes out of nowhere, but ...

There is a strange moment many people know well. The fan is running, the room temperature has not changed much, yet the body ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you've ever fallen into bed totally exhausted and drifted off immediately, only to wake up feeling ...

Waking up is supposed to be the easy part of the day. You open your eyes, stretch a little, and maybe start thinking about ...

Some mornings when you wake up, your head is fuzzy, your body is heavy, and you don’t feel rested. It felt like you were dreaming all night. But did all that dreaming actually wear you out? Let’s look ...

You've probably experienced it—your alarm is set for 6:30 a.m., yet somehow your eyes snap open a few minutes before it goes off. There's no sound, no external cue, just the body somehow knowing it's ...

There is a strange kind of tiredness that coffee cannot fix. The kind where eight hours of sleep still feels like four. The ...

Waking up is hard enough. Waking up at the exact same time every day—even on weekends, when you could be luxuriating for another hour (or three) under the covers—can feel borderline unreasonable. Yet ...

If your smartphone doubles as your alarm clock, you may be losing out on needed shut-eye as texts, alerts and other notifications come in throughout the night. Constant loud noise and bright lights ...