In the modern age, few things are more ironically stressful than sleep. Are we getting enough ? Too much ? Dropping off too quickly or too slow ? Once we’re out, is it normal that we keep dreaming about our teeth falling out or coming face-to-face with a snake ? How come constantly worrying about all this isn’t making sleep come any faster?! The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Now, good sleep is important – that’s indisputable. But as the issues above make clear, what counts as “good” is really a mixture of myriad different factors. So, in an effort to de-oversimplify the issue, a new study takes a more holistic approach to quantifying sleep – and has found that, when it comes to sleep, you’re not one in a milli

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