Open Questions: Sleep

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Sleep Medicine Home Page: "This home page lists resources regarding all aspects of sleep including, the physiology of sleep, clinical sleep medicine, sleep research, federal and state information, patient information, and business-related groups."

National Sleep Foundation: U. S. non-profit organization "dedicated to improving public health and safety by achieving understanding of sleep and sleep disorders, and by supporting sleep-related education, research, and advocacy." The site contains many articles about sleep and sleep disorders.
Loughborough Sleep Research Centre: Sleep research facility in the UK. The site describes some of the center's research, offers some popular articles on sleep topics, and provides information on sleep disorders such as insomnia.
British Sleep Society: "The British Sleep Society is an professional organisation whose membership consists of mainly medical, healthcare and scientific workers who have interest in sleep and its medical disorders. The aims of the society are to improve public health by promoting education and research into sleep and its disorders." The site contains some useful external links.

Sleep: Article from Wikipedia. See also Sleep disorder, Circadian rhythm, Sleep debt.
Sleep and Learning: Brief page about how sleep helps learning and the consolidation of memories, by the Society for Neuroscience.
Strange but True: Less Sleep Means More Dreams: September 2007 Scientific American sidebar, subtitled "Missing sleep tonight may just boost your dreams tomorrow night."
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: May 2005 Scientific American sidebar, subtitled "What are dreams? Why do we have them? The answers are as intriguing as dreams themselves."
Sleep improves memory: November 2000 news article about research on the importance of sleep for consolidating memory.
Lack of sleep really is bad for you: October 1999 news article about how significant lack of sleep adversely affects glucose tolerance and endocrine function.