Sentences with phrase «between wakefulness»

The goal is to finally achieve a «hypnagogic state» — the state between wakefulness and sleep.
In these early months of life, your newborn often alternates between wakefulness and short periods of sleep.

Not exact matches

A writer for Austin360 documented his experience alternating between sleep and wakefulness.
Ideally, you'll see hypnagogic (events that happen in the realm between sleep and wakefulness) imagery dance against the back of your eyelids.
I can not help but wonder why you would choose to interpret this experience (which sounds to me like that fuzzy, disorienting transitional state between sleep and wakefulness that we all experience from time to time) as meeting your god.
Remain at the thin place between sleeping and wakefulness, watching the dawn come in.
For him there was no absolute distinction to be made between dreams, hallucinations, and the impressions he received during the hours of wakefulness.
he general rule of thumb here is that babies under 4 months of age need to have very brief periods of wakefulness (between 1 - 2 hours is plenty).
In early months of life, newborn baby often alternates between short periods of sleep and wakefulness.
Granted, this technique doesn't fly with all parents — finding the sweet spot between sleepiness and wakefulness is tough with some babies — but it's a nice guideline.
At best, they bounce back and forth between various sleep stages and brief states of drowsy wakefulness.
These suggestions correlate to the average baby's windows of wakefulness, which is basically a fancy way of saying «the length of time you can expect your baby to stay awake between sleep times without completely melting down.
Newborns spend much of their time alternating between sleep and short bursts of wakefulness.
Find out what time his nap time is also so that he has 4 hours of wakefulness between nap time and bedtime.
Remember, your baby's wakefulness window at this age is only between 1 and 2 hours, which means that your baby's fussing may be more that just fussing, she may be telling you that she needs sleep.
Sleeping on couches and armchairs places infants at extraordinarily high risk of infant death, including SIDS, 4,6,7,42,43 suffocation through entrapment or wedging between seat cushions, or overlay if another person is also sharing this surface.44 Therefore, parents and other caregivers should be especially vigilant as to their wakefulness when feeding infants or lying with infants on these surfaces.
I imagine him lying in bed, in the early hours, gazing at the ceiling, and dreaming, in that between - sleep - and - wakefulness moment, of the conversations to be overheard at the Dog and Duck: That Nick Clegg!»
We are starting to learn that there is a strange twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness (see «The twilight zone»).
Between these two extremes, patients may be said to be in a vegetative state or exhibit unresponsive wakefulness, characterized by open eyes and basic reflexes, but no signs of awareness.
The PET scan data could correctly distinguish between minimal consciousness and severe unresponsive wakefulness with 89 % accuracy, the team reports today in Current Biology.
The main difference between these and normal mice is that there is no «quiet» wakefulness or napping during the normally sleep - enriched daytime period.»
The new study — the first of its kind — demonstrates how wakefulness is connected to the relationship between alcohol use and suicide risk.
Cortical theta oscillations were observed during the transition from sleep and during quiet wakefulness; however, the authors were unable to find any correlation between hippocampal and cortical theta waves, and concluded that the two processes are probably controlled by independent mechanisms.
Finally, negative correlations between default network and lateral frontoparietal cortices activity, present during wakefulness, decreased proportionally to propofol - induced loss of consciousness.
The first is NREM1 between drowsy wakefulness and sleep, in which your muscles are still quite active, you're rolling around in bed and you may occasionally open your eyes.
While human studies have been unable to resolve a link between meal volume and measures of wakefulness (Landström et al., 2001), artificial distension of the gut has been shown to increase sleep in rats (Lorenz et al., 1998).
People with this problem eat while sleepwalking, or while in a twilight state between sleep and wakefulness.
People with this disorder are extremely aware of their surroundings while sleeping, suggesting that they may transition often between light, stage 1 sleep and wakefulness.
The iRest ® sleep meditation program is based on yoga nidra principles (i.e., practices that promote the state between sleep and wakefulness) and provides verbal narration to guide users to a restful state of body and mind (Miller, 2010).
This wakefulness lets him divide his time between driving a taxi and manning the graveyard shift at the front desk of a mid-range hotel.
Boxing Day, December 2016 I've always delighted in the free fall between sleep and wakefulness.
He was caught in that blissful state of nonbeing that lies somewhere between slumber and wakefulness.
In an LA Times review of For Your Pleasure, CB1 Gallery's August 2010 group exhibition, David Pagel wrote that «Zamani's meaty paintings come from the no - man's - land between sleep and wakefulness, when consciousness is not fully functional and every little detail is more mysterious than usual.
He would sketch the shapes he had seen on the inside of his eyelids in the twilight between sleep and wakefulness.
Regarding her new collection, Ansell shares: «The genesis of ideas often takes place in the shadowy in between of sleep and wakefulness.
Her newest work explores the «place between sleep and wakefulness», and each painting is accompanied by part of a childhood rhyme that comes together as you get towards the end of the show.
Strong correlations were found between the repeated sleep measures for nocturnal sleep duration (r =.82), daytime sleep duration (r =.89), number of night wakings (r =.88), duration of nocturnal wakefulness (r =.95), nocturnal sleep - onset time (r =.95), and settling time (r =.94).
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