FT Series Everything you need to know about sleep We can’t survive without it. But why is sleep often so elusive — and how can we get more of it? © Lucas Varela Night shift: the dangers of working around the clockA growing number of us work nights or irregular hours — but at what cost?From narcolepsy to apnoea: the science of sleep disordersBiologist and narcoleptic Henry Nicholls explores what happens when sleep goes wrongWhy we dreamAre our night-time visions a window into the mind or a form of biological housekeeping?Confessions of an insomniacFrom earplugs to drugs to chanting . . . Marina Benjamin has tried it all during her lifelong battleYour most pressing sleep questions, answeredFrom ageing to insomnia and smartphones: we took readers’ concerns to two sleep expertsWhy tech titans should disrupt sleep next’It’s amazing that Mark Zuckerberg is allowing us eight hours of slumber’More from this SeriesHow to get ahead? Buy an office bed‘I increasingly suspect that the key to success isn’t talent or nepotism. It’s getting enough sleep’Can’t sleep? There’s an app for thatFrom weighted blankets to pillow spray, Emma Jacobs puts the latest sleep aids to the testDeath’s understudy: what sleep can teach medicine‘Sleep patterns may one day be used to tap into the minds of otherwise unreachable patients’Q&A with sleep scientist Cheri Mah‘An optimal sleep environment is a cave — dark, quiet, cool, comfortable’Port, the perfect nightcap‘The quality being made today is higher than it has ever been, and the range is so much wider’
