Sleeping Trouble - Facts about Sleep
Sleeping Trouble? Approximately ⅓ of your life is spent sleeping! This article provides a 50 trivia facts about sleep - fascinating! For even more trivia and facts about dreaming click Facts about Dreams.

Sleeping Trouble - Sleep Positions
Sleeping Trouble? This article provides a little light relief to the problems and issues relating to sleep and dreams. Studies reveal that there are 6 common types of Sleep Positions - Foetus, Log, Yearner, Soldier, Freefaller, and Starfish. These six most common sleeping positions are indicative of personality types - so find out what your sleep positions say about your personality.

Sleeping Trouble - Types of Sleeping Disorders
Sleeping Trouble? This article provides a comprehensive list of sleep disorders and sleep problems. The list of the different types of sleeping disorders provides an overview of all sleep related problems and issues.

Sleeping Trouble - Dyssomnia, Parasomnia and Health related categories
Sleeping Trouble? The different types of sleeping disorders are clssified as Dyssomnias, Parasomnias and Health related disorders.

• Dyssomnias include sleeping disorders characterized by either insomnia (too little sleep) or hypersomnia (too much sleep)

• Parasomnias include sleeping disorders that involve abnormal and unnatural movements, emotions or dreams. Common parasomnias include sleep walking, teeth grinding, and restless legs syndrome

• Health related sleep trouble - Medical or Psychiatric Conditions that may produce sleep disorders

Sleeping Trouble - Insomnia
Sleeping Trouble? Description and Definition of Insomnia: Difficulty falling asleep and / or staying asleep. Insomnia is a symptom which can accompany several sleep, medical and psychiatric disorders.

Sleeping Trouble - Sleep Deprivation and Effects
Sleeping Trouble? Sleep deprivation is a sleep disorder characterized by having too little sleep which can be either chronic or acute. Chronic sleep deprivation is long-lasting and recurrent whereas Acute sleep deprivation is occurs over a relatively short period of time.

Sleeping Trouble - Nightmares
Sleeping Trouble? A nightmare is a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream of particular intensity causing strong feelings of fear, horror and distress. About 5% - 10% of adults have nightmares once a month or more frequently.

Sleeping Trouble - Hypersomnia
Sleeping Trouble? Excessive sleepiness during normal waking hours, an inability to stay awake.

Sleeping Trouble - Narcolepsy
Sleeping Trouble? Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) characterized by excessive sleepiness during normal waking hours, an inability to stay awake by sudden, uncontrollable urges to sleep, causing an individual to fall asleep at inappropriate times.

Sleeping Trouble - Sleep Apnea
Sleeping Trouble? Sleep apnea (or sleep apnoea in British English) a sleeping disorder that causes a person to temporarily stop breathing while asleep.

Sleeping Trouble - Snoring
Sleeping Trouble? A sound a sleeping person may make during sleep. The snorting noises are caused by vibration of the soft palate.

Sleeping Trouble - Sleepwalking
Sleeping Trouble? Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, is the act of walking while not being conscious or aware of it.

Sleeping Trouble - Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)
Sleeping Trouble? Restless legs syndrome (RLS), also known as Wittmaack-Ekbom's syndrome, is a condition where legs feel uncomfortable and may have a crawling sensation after going to bed. The sensation results in an irresistible urge to move or jerk the leg.

Sleeping Trouble - Jet Lag
Sleeping Trouble? Description and Definition of Jet Lag: Jet lag, medical term "desynchronosis",is caused by air travel through changing time zones causing a temporary disruption of the body's sleep/wake rhythm.

Sleeping Trouble - DSPS (Delayed sleep phase syndrome)
Sleeping Trouble? Description and Definition: Also known as delayed sleep-phase disorder (DSPD) or delayed sleep-phase type (DSPT), Delayed sleep phase syndrome is a circadian rhythm disorder where a person's sleep/wake cycle is delayed compared to what is considered a normal sleep cycle. Sufferers typically go to bed very late and have difficulty getting up in the morning.

Sleeping Trouble - Night Sweats
Also known as Sleep hyperhidrosis is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive sweating during sleep. One cause of this condition is referred to as Hot Flushes which occur during the time of menopause.  

Sleeping Trouble - Baby Sleep Problems
Sleeping Trouble? A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year. In some cases this leads to Sleep Deprivation symptoms and effects.

Sleeping Trouble - Bedwetting (Nocturnal Enuresis)
Sleeping Trouble? Involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control would normally be anticipated.

Sleeping Trouble - Teeth Grinding (Bruxism)
Sleeping Trouble - Unconsciously grinding and clenching of the teeth particularly during sleep.

Sleeping Trouble - Heartburn
Sleeping Trouble? A burning sensation in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet. Night heartburn often occurs after a heavy or spicy meal.

Sleeping Trouble - Shift Work Sleep Disorder (SWSD)
Sleeping Trouble - A circadian rhythm disorder where a person's sleep/wake cycle is disrupted by changes to their work schedule.

Sleeping Trouble - Cataplexy
Sleeping Trouble? A symptom of narcolepsy in which there is a sudden episode of muscle weakness triggered by emotions. Cataplexy is believed to represent a fragment of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep that intrudes into otherwise normal consciousness.

Sleeping Trouble - Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD)
A neurological condition, formerly called sleep myoclonus or nocturnal myoclonus, is a sleep disorder characterized by involuntary flexion of leg muscles, causing twitching and leg extension or kicking during sleep.

Sleeping Trouble - Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
Sleeping Trouble? One of the more common sleep disorders with symptoms of loud snoring and periodic pauses in breathing caused by obstruction of the airway.

Sleeping Trouble - Sleep paralysis
Sleeping Trouble - The temporary, but frightening, paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).

Sleeping Trouble - Frequent Urination (Nocturia)
Sleeping Trouble? Frequent night-time urination.

Sleeping Trouble - Somniphobia
Sleeping Trouble? An abnormal fear of sleep.

Sleeping Trouble - Night Terrors
Also known as a sleep terror or pavor nocturnus characterized by sudden awakenings from a bad dream with associated screaming in terror and confusion. 

Sleeping Trouble - REM Sleep Disorder
Also known as sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in which the paralysis that normally occurs during REM sleep is incomplete or absent. This allows the person to "act out" dreams that are vivid, intense, and violent and accompanied by yelling, punching, kicking, sitting, jumping from bed, arm flailing and grabbing.

Sleeping Trouble - Sleep talking (Somniloquy)
The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.

Sleeping Trouble - Hypopnea Syndrome
Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea (OSAH) in which a person repeatedly stops breathing, or experiences shallow breathing for short periods of time during sleep.