Over the past five years, I've made hundreds of videos answering the sleep questions I hear most, from exam rooms at Duke to the comments on my posts.
Now they're all in one place, organized by topic so you can find what you need, when you need it. Most are under two minutes, and every one is grounded in the science.
Bookmark this page, share it with a tired friend, paste it into your own website, and come back whenever sleep gets tricky. I'll keep adding to it.
Sleep well,
Dr. Sujay
Sleep Training
- Complete sleep training guide
- Sleep training names
- Six-part series: 1. Intro · 2. What is it? · 3. When? · 4. Why? · 5. Why not? · 6. How?
- Ferber method troubleshooting
- Naps during sleep training
- Sleep training pitfalls to avoid
- Infant sleep training FAQs
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Five sleep training books in 30 seconds
- Does sleep training cause harm?
- Cortisol and sleep training
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Myths and facts of sleep training
- Sleep training misinformation
- Grandparents vs. sleep training
Pregnancy & New Parents
- Sleep and Pregnancy: 3 things they don't tell you
- New moms, sleep debt, and sleep training
- Sleep expectations for new parents
- Baby sleep and mom driving
- Gender inequality in nighttime child care
Newborn Sleep
- Newborn sleep tips
- Helping young infants sleep and setting them up for success
- Active sleep vs. quiet sleep in infants
- Safe Sleep for Infants: 2022 updated recs
- Safe infant sleep with Dr. Moon
Infant Sleep
- When do babies sleep through the night?
- Wake windows: what I love and hate about them
- Sleep pressure in infants
- Sleep regressions: myth or fact?
- Sleep onset associations explained
- Driving and infant sleep
Toddler Sleep
- Toddler sleep: the basics
- Toddler sleep hygiene
- Two main causes of toddler sleep problems
- Limit setting solution 1: The robotic return to bed
- Limit setting solution 2: Positive routines and faded bedtime
- Anxious toddler hack 1: Camping out
- Anxious toddler hack 2: Frequent checks
- Call me maybe? A new toddler sleep hack
- Avoid this toddler routine mistake
- When to transition to a toddler bed
- Coffee for toddlers?!
School-Age Kids & Teens
- Bedtime fading for kids who can't fall asleep
- Back-to-school sleep fix, method 1
- Back-to-school sleep fix, method 2: Chronotherapy
Sleep Disorders: When to Worry
- When do kids need a sleep study?
- Can children have sleep apnea?
- Mouth taping for kids?
- Pediatric restless leg syndrome
- Nocturnal head banging
- Narcolepsy: an intro
- Cataplexy attack in dogs
- OSA and epilepsy
- Home sleep apnea test vs. in-lab study
- Celebrities and sleep apnea
Nightmares, Night Terrors & Strange Sleep Events
- NREM parasomnias: sleepwalking, night terrors, and more
- Sleepwalking 101
- Night terrors in kids: the Sleep Doc's approach
- The case of the Disneyland night terrors
- Recurrent nightmares: an easy treatment
- Exploding head syndrome explained
- Hypnic jerks explained
Sleep Science
- Why do we sleep?
- How much sleep do you need?
- Can you train your body to sleep less?
- Is sleep debt real?
- How the circadian rhythm works
- How long is the human circadian rhythm?
- A microwave explains the circadian rhythm
- When does night become day for your brain?
- The forbidden zone of sleep
- What is normal sleep latency?
- Why you don't sleep 100% of the night
- The data behind polyphasic sleep
- Do you dream in color?
- Do dogs and cats dream?
- Do we eat more when we're sleepy?
- Which countries sleep the most?
- Three things I wish everyone knew about sleep
- Sleep deprivation in medical residency
Your Body Clock
- How to become a morning person
- Shifting your body clock earlier
- Scototherapy (dark therapy)
- Social jet lag
- How to "sleep in"
- Sleep early or sleep long?
- Should you hit snooze?
- Time zones, sleep, health, and productivity
Daylight Saving Time
- Should we have DST year-round?
- The answer is permanent standard time
- The nonsense behind daylight saving time
- Fall Daylight Saving: Four methods
- Fall DST for infants, toddlers, and early birds
- Keeping fall DST a secret from yourself
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Spring DST: How to adjust
Travel & Jet Lag
Insomnia & Trouble Falling Asleep
- Mind racing at night? Insomnia Explained in 5 minutes
- Why does my mind race at night?
- Stimulus control therapy
- Paradoxical insomnia explained
- Falling back to sleep
- A common insomnia mistake
- 5 common sleep problems
- Explaining Jen Hamilton's sleep hack: Cognitive Shuffling
Sleep Habits, Hygiene & Naps
- Sleep hygiene in 4 easy steps
- Good, better, and best for sleep
- Wake-up vs. bedtime consistency
- Ideal sleep temperature
- The best bed
- The perfect nap, explained
Caffeine, Alcohol, Melatonin & Supplements
- How caffeine works
- Caffeine half-life and your genetics
- Caffeine in popular drinks
- Sleep drive and caffeine
- Alcohol and sleep
- Marijuana and sleep
- Melatonin physiology: a short explainer
- Melatonin and light
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Melatonin for kids?
- Does melatonin cause heart failure?
- Best sleep supplement
- Sleep doc rates sleep aids
- Huberman, magnesium, Ambien, alcohol, CBT-I, and CPAP
Screens & Sleep Tech
- Is your phone the cause or the consequence?
- Orthosomnia: when sleep tracking backfires
- Best sleep tracker for your money
Couples & Sleep
- Bed partner sleep dyssynchrony
- Sleep divorce
- Second-hand snoring
- Man vs. woman: what sounds wake them up?