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A nightshirt is a garment intended for wear while sleeping, often with a nightcap. It is longer than most regular shirts, reaching down below the knees, [1] leaving some of the legs uncovered. It is often referred to as a nightgown for men, but nowadays, nightshirts are an optional sleepwear for women too.
According to a study on sleep disturbances in the Journal of Neural Transmission, a hypnic jerk occurs during the non-rapid eye movement sleep cycle and is an "abrupt muscle action flexing movement, generalized or partial and asymmetric, which may cause arousal, with an illusion of falling". [13]
Truss pad. In medicine, a truss is a kind of surgical appliance, particularly one used for hernia patients. A truss provides support for the herniated area, using a pad and belt arrangement to hold it in the correct position, just when it is put on before moving from bed.
A Muslim girl in India wearing pajamas and kurti (lithograph from Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India, 1844) Two-piece men's pajamas. Pajamas (or pyjamas in Commonwealth English, (/ p ə ˈ dʒ ɑː m ə z, p ɪ-,-ˈ dʒ æ-/ pə-JAH-məz, pih-, - JAM-əz)) are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging.
Portrait of Henry Shaw wearing a nightcap. A nightcap is a cloth cap worn with other nightwear such as pajamas, a onesie, a nightshirt, or a nightgown; historically worn in the cold climates of Northern Europe. Nightcaps are somewhat similar to knit caps worn for warmth outdoors.
The first, a 2006 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that, while white women and white men sleep over six hours a night on average, Black women sleep just 5.9 hours a night and ...
The original definition of sleep paralysis was codified by Samuel Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language as nightmare, a term that evolved into our modern definition. Such sleep paralysis was widely considered the work of demons , and more specifically incubi , which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers.
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