I spent a decade in the dark, watching patients through the dim glow of monitors while they were wired to a headbox, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the internet is doing a terrible job of helping you sleep. You are likely currently drowning in a sea of “miracle” supplements and predatory marketing, searching for a complete guide to sleep medication that actually makes sense. Most of what you’ll find is either a sales pitch for an expensive gummy or a terrifyingly vague warning about dependency. They treat sleep like a light switch you can just…

I’ve spent seventeen years in sleep clinics, often sitting in the dim light of a monitoring room while patients lie tethered to wires, dreaming of things they can’t quite explain. Most “expert” advice you’ll find online treats a bad dream like a profound psychological mystery that requires a decade of therapy or a expensive new supplement, but that’s rarely the whole story. I’m tired of seeing people convinced they have a deep-seated neurological crisis when, in reality, they’re just reacting to a bedroom that’s too stuffy or a sleep schedule that’s a total wreck. This isn’t your typical, fluffy complete…

I spent a decade in darkened sleep labs, watching the EEG readouts flicker while patients did things in their sleep that would make a horror movie director blush. Most people come to me looking for a “complete guide to parasomnias” because they’ve read some terrifying thread online or their wearable tracker has flagged a “disruption” that they’ve convinced themselves is a neurological crisis. They are often terrified that they are losing control of their bodies in the night, when in reality, they are usually just dealing with a highly predictable—albeit unsettling—glitch in their sleep architecture. I am not here to…