Sentences with phrase «of sleepwalker»

In Back to Bed, players take on the role of Subob — the dog - like manifestation of sleepwalker Bob's subconscious — who must guide him through increasingly challenging dream - like levels with the goal of ushering the sound asleep Bob back to bed.

In Back to Bed, players take the role of Subob — the subconscious identity of sleepwalker Bob — and must guide him through increasingly challenging dream levels with the eventual goal of bringing the bleary - eyed Bob back to bed.

Chris Bohjalian, author of The Sleepwalker — MODERATED BY BOOKPAGE 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Nashville Public Library Auditorium

The Killing of a Sacred Deer propels itself forward with all the energy of a sleepwalker, but also with the same tireless purpose.

It's not enough to smother the fire of the film but it does douse Hutchinson (who plays a brainwashing victim with the empty sincerity of a sleepwalker) and Chris Hemsworth, who gets lost in the massive cast and busy script.

They found that sounding a buzzer during «slow wave» sleep triggered sleepwalking in three of the sleepwalkers under normal circumstances, and all 10 sleepwalkers when they had been kept awake for 25 hours prior to sleeping.

Breakthrough research using virtual reality has revealed significant differences in how the brains of sleepwalkers and non-sleepwalkers control and perceive body movement — a first in cognitive science.

Maddin mixes personal reminiscences with elaborate fantasies of Masonic rituals and collectivist brothels, to construct a vision of Winnipeg as a city of sleepwalkers.

A diverse demographic and culture of sleepwalkers live a life of alcoholism, drug use, lotto, computer games, smartphones — and in many cases opulence and haughty self - anointing.

An authentication card signed by Doug Aitken indicating the edition number is included along with: A 23» x 36» double - sided poster with original artwork by Doug Aitken; A 12» vinyl picture disc contains unreleased tracks by Broadcast and a live recording of Doug Aitken's original opera the handle comes up, the hammer comes down; A 96 - page visual diary of the making of the film including sketches, production photos, film stills, script fragments, and inspirational found images; Two flipbooks with motion sequences excerpted from the film and the film's projection of the MoMA facade; A triptych gatefold case contains a CD soundtrack that features the tracks on the picture disc plus tracks by Bibio, Ranphorynchus, Steve Roden, Tim Hecker, and Canyon Country; A DVD includes an edit of Sleepwalkers cut specifically for this box set and a street level walkthrough as installed at the MoMA in NYC

In addition to documentation of Sleepwalkers, this publication contains an overview of the artist's work to date, with special emphasis on works since 2001.

Not exact matches

In other words, such a robot would merely be a more extreme version of a human sleepwalker, an automaton that does things by program and not by conscious decision.

The whole thing has happened to him so quickly that Ollen still speaks of it in rather bemused tones — something like a sleepwalker who has just been awakened and informed that he holds the world record for swallowing goldfish.

One of the best racers was a British woman named Audrey Sale - Barker, and a description of her from a contemporary account (1929) is fascinating — if only to see how this rather pale and ethereal young thing contrasts with the sturdy, hard - schussing women downhillers of today: «Audrey Sale - Barker was very tall, extremely slim... with pale honey - colored hair, a vague, dreamy expression, and when she skied I can only describe her as a sleepwalker.

If you're a sleepwalker, or find on the recordings that you have any kind of irregular sleep behaviors, then your baby in your bed is a no go.

Also, sleepwalkers» eyes are open, but they don't see the same way they do when they're awake and they often think they're in different rooms of the house or different places altogether.

Before you go to bed, take the same precautions you would for a sleepwalker because children who have night terrors might also sleepwalk or tumble out of bed in the grip of a night terror.

«A lot of individuals with this problem start out as conventional sleepwalkers and then become fixated on food,» reports sleep expert Mark Mahowald of the University of Minnesota.

Although this research didn't look specifically at sleepwalkers, it tallies with a previous study by Claudio Bassetti at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, who once managed to manoeuvre a sleepwalker into a brain scanner during a sleepwalking episode.

Antonio Zadra at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, and his colleagues measured the brain activity of 10 sleepwalkers and 10 control subjects to determine what stage of sleep they were in.

«We found that sleepwalkers continued to walk at the same speed, with the same precision as before and were more aware of their movements than non-sleepwalkers,» says EPFL neuroscientist Olaf Blanke.

Sleepwalkers are known to perform complex movements such as walking in the absence of full consciousness.

Sleepwalkers had a median age of 30 years.

Results show that sleepwalkers were nearly 4 times more likely than controls to report a history of headaches (odds ratio = 3.80) and 10 times more likely to report experiencing migraines (OR = 10.04), after adjusting for potential confounders such as insomnia and depression.

What's surprising is that while sleepwalkers were unlikely to experience pain while sleepwalking, they were close to 4 times more likely than the controls in the study to have a history of headaches and 10 times more likely to report a history of migraines, the researchers say.

The sleepwalkers in the study were a median age of 30.

You won't see sleepwalkers shuffling around, arms outstretched; many navigate their rooms with ease and are capable of opening doors and moving furniture.

Your chance of being a sleepwalker can more than double if one or both parents have had episodes.

Sleepwalkers are difficult to wake up and often have little or no recollection of their actions.

This technique alone will make sure that, the 3 month step - by - step plan will pull you with sleepwalker - like easiness to your six - pack of abs.

The Sleepwalker has plenty of traits in common with Durkin's film: a similar plot, precise cinematography, the Haneke - inspired chilly remove, and that feeling of something oh so wrong lurking underneath the surface.

Unfortunately The Sleepwalker is nothing more than a tone - deaf attempt at the kind of psychological drama its predecessors did so well.

In the first segment, Maddin's camera drifts dreamlike through crowded trains as a floating kielbasa hangs from the ceiling and the director / narrator ponders just why the city boasts the most sleepwalkers per capita of any major international city.

Somewhere along the line, it might have been funny for director Cosgrove (The Sleepwalker Killing, Victim of Love) to actually have his characters do and say funny things other than to spotlight their fanciful sexual indiscretions, but alas, he must have thought the mere depiction of these fetishes would be enough to garner snickers from the audience.

«Sleepwalkers» was also one of the first movie to use CGI in order to create a morphing effect for the creatures faces.

Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet, Sleepwalkers) offers a nice, modestly styled sense of direction, though it really could have used a bit more excitement in the manner in which the killings are staged and shot.

Though it's easy to accuse her of being a little wooden, that was likely the exact effect, i.e. sexy sleepwalker, that Hitchcock intended.

The Sleepwalker (1942)(7:12) Pluto's sleepwalking antics creates a bit of chaos when he winds up giving his bone to a neighboring dachshund.

The film's hero with a dozen faces is a young man (Wiley Wiggins of «Dazed and Confused») who wanders an urban dreamscape, encountering various guides and fellow sleepwalkers, most of whom have something to say about the meaning of life and the nature of death.

Weirdly sad, always ridiculous and effectively nasty, Sleepwalkers is perhaps the least remembered King film most worthy of re-appraisal, if nothing else because it features some of the most powerful cat acting committed to film.

Employing the services of cinematographer Zack Galler (The Sleepwalker) for what should be another distinctly distinguishable looking film, noteworthy creative folk in Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces» Sofía Subercaseaux (Dina) and Art Director Naomi Munro (It Comes at Night) are part of the fold.

The actor's already proven himself to have a eye for smart indie fare («Martha Marcy May Marlene,» «Hello I Must Be Going,» and «The Sleepwalker»), and the way he made the most of a very small role in «A Most Violent Year» indicates a hunger inside for more.

Rebecca Daly's debut film, The Other Side of Sleep, a spooky thriller concerning a lifelong sleepwalker, will play in the semi-official Directors» Fortnight strand.

Sundance also brought a number of other strong pictures, including Marjane Satrapi «s surprisingly strong «The Voices,» Brady Corbet - starring «The Sleepwalker,» Mike Cahill «s sci - fi «I Origins,» smart relationship comedy «The One I Love,» stripped - down genre picture «Cold In July,» true - crime doc «Whitey,» Roger Ebert tribute «Life Itself «and many others.

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing By Mira Jacob Random House • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812985061 Jacobs» darkly funny debut novel about an Indian - American family made several best books of the year lists when it was released in hardcover in 2014.

I believe that The Sleepwalkers portrays the world as it is today as we enter the End of Days.

There's the matter of legal ethics, whereby a sleepwalker who killed his father - in - law was acquitted of wrongdoing; the irony of sleeping pills whose effectiveness stems from their inducing short - term amnesia, thus helping you forget how much you actually tossed and turned all night; or the inventor of a highly successful treatment for sleep apnea, now patiently waiting for the Westernization of China to manifest itself in a king's ransom of obesity - related sleep disorders.

F. P. Dorchak has written many short stories, forgotten most of them, and is the author of Voice, Psychic, ERO, The Uninvited, and Sleepwalkers.

The defense will contend that the blow to the head rendered him unconscious (like a sleepwalker) so he was not aware of what he was doing.

Back To Bed in development by Bedtime Digital Games is a 3D isometric puzzle platformer where you guide sleepwalker Bob from his «sleep inducing» office to the safety of his -LSB-...]