Natural short sleepers are not people who’ve trained themselves to snooze for minimal hours in order to be more productive or meet the demands of an unconventional work schedule (such as a night nanny ...

Humans spend about one-third of our lives asleep, but scientists still don’t fully understand how sleep works and why some people have different sleep habits than others. “Natural short sleepers” are ...

Lindsey Hudson began to suspect her sleep habits weren’t the norm during her freshman year at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma. A competitive high school cheerleader, teenage Lindsey—busy with ...

While most adults need to get seven or more hours of sleep a night, “natural short sleepers” only need four to six hours. It’s well established that sleep is necessary for people’s brains and bodies ...

“I generally sleep four hours a night, and then I’m up and good to go,” said a woman named Sindi van Zyl, recently profiled by Fast Company as being a “natural short sleeper.” Consisting of less than ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most of us treat sleep like it’s a simple budget item: we ...