According to a 2011 poll, more than half of Americans between the ages of thirteen and sixty-four experience a sleep problem almost every night, and nearly two-thirds complain that they are not getting enough rest during the week.

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"Going to sleep is a problem, " she said.

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Another growing problem is sleep apnea.

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But Drucker also urged those complaining of burnout and exhaustion to examine whether overwork or sleep loss was the real problem or whether they were just sick of their jobs.

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Confronted with one son who wanted to make a film about how tests were ruining his high school, and another son whose stress over the high-stakes tests led him to scratch his legs during his sleep, Michele decided to take the problem seriously.

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Houston wanted us to sleep while they learned as much as possible about the breaker problem.

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Mark Rosekind, a National Transportation Safety Board member who formerly directed a sleep research center at Stanford University, says it's a pervasive problem that requires a culture change to fix.

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"The problem is people rarely do such acts under controlled conditions at a sleep clinic, " says sleep specialist Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Clinic.

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Signs there may be a problem include difficulty or pain when passing urine, the need to pass urine more often, broken sleep due to increased visits to pass urine, waiting for long periods before the urine flows and the feeling that the bladder has not emptied fully.

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