Sleeping with Jeff Bridges has become a nightmare

A new album from the actor and country musician aims to help you sleep – which is great until the Dude invades your dreams

How to get your kids off to sleep, minus the stress

Shouting ‘Go to sleep!’ is not the most effective solution. I should know, I’ve tried it enough

How much sleep do I need at my age?

A study in the US has come up with new guidelines and recommended amounts for every age group

Would you let a stranger wake you up with a phone call?

A new app, Wakie, promises that the ‘mental engagement’ offered by a call from another, random, user is an effective wake-up strategy – but does it work? We tested it for a week

My 11-year-old sister is afraid of the dark and won’t sleep on her own

Since she was eight, she always ends up in my bed or my parents’. What’s going on? Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader

Soporific songs: what music makes you snooze?

Jeff Bridges thinks he’s hit the lullaby jackpot with his new Sleeping Tapes. But what do you stick on the stereo when the sandman has gone awol?

Sundance 2015 review: The Nightmare – documentary shows truth more frightening than fiction

Room 237 documentarian Rodney Ascher takes us into the dark, shows us screaming sufferers of sleep paralysis, then tells us we could well become one of them. Good luck ever resting again

What’s your unusual bedtime habit?

Open thread: So Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace reads Winnie the Pooh in bed to his fiancee. What do you do that’s endearing – or annoying?

Can’t sleep? How to beat insomnia

Do you start most days exhausted after a sleepless or restless night? Your dreams of better sleep could come true ...

Are you suffering from social jetlag?

Feeling tired, irritable and not much use back at work? It’s probably down to those lie-ins over the Christmas break, say scientists