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?

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Night shift: the dangers of working around the clock

A growing number of us work nights or irregular hours — but at what cost?

The science of sleep disorders

Biologist and narcoleptic Henry Nicholls explores what happens when sleep goes wrong

Why we dream

Are our night-time visions a window into the mind or a form of biological housekeeping?

Confessions of an insomniac

From earplugs to drugs to chanting . . . Marina Benjamin has tried it all during her lifelong battle

Your most pressing sleep questions, answered

From ageing to insomnia and smartphones: we took readers’ concerns to two sleep experts

Why tech titans should disrupt sleep next

’It’s amazing that Mark Zuckerberg is allowing us eight hours of slumber’

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Death’s understudy: what sleep can teach medicine

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Q&A with sleep scientist Cheri Mah

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