All Sleep Regulation and Timing

Processes that control when people sleep, how much of each sleep stage they get and how they behave around bedtime. It covers rebound of lost sleep stages, individual differences in the preferred time of day for sleeping and waking, and habits that shorten sleep. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article is about the timing, amount or regulation of sleep. Experiences during sleep, such as dreams and sleepwalking, and the moments of falling asleep or waking belong in their own groups. Where scientists disagree about the mechanism, the member page says so.