Trying to imagine fat, fuzzy white lambs, jumping one by one over a fence, is a well-known remedy for sleeplessness. When I used to try this, I would insert a dapper black sheep with a red bow tie now ...

In today’s world we have lots of sleep aides like Tempur-Pedic beds and, uh, Ambien. But if you’re still using the bore-yourself-to-sleep method, some bad news is coming down the pike: Counting sheep ...

Counting sheep has long been touted as a way of combating insomnia, with literature referencing the technique for more than 150 years. The traditional advice is to imagine a line of the woolly ...

When I had trouble falling asleep as a child, my parents would tell me to count sheep. It didn’t work very well; I generally gave up on counting well before sleep overtook me. Now, as a parent of ...

It’s the middle of the day in the desert and the temperature is approaching 120 degrees with humidity. It feels exactly like a sauna. The campground at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park about 80 miles ...