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  2. Sleep problems in women - Wikipedia

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    Subjectively, women report an increase in night-time awakening and an increase in total sleep time. [1] Pregnant women's main physiological complaints about the quality of sleep during the first trimester are related to nausea and vomiting, urinary frequency, backaches, and feeling uncomfortable and fatigued; as well as tender breasts, headache ...

  3. Hypnic jerk - Wikipedia

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    A higher occurrence is reported in people with irregular sleep schedules. [4] When they are particularly frequent and severe, hypnic jerks have been reported as a cause of sleep-onset insomnia. [3] Hypnic jerks are common physiological phenomena. [5] Around 70% of people experience them at least once in their lives with 10% experiencing them daily.

  4. Menstruation hut - Wikipedia

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    The huts may be made of mud and stones and may have roofs made of grass. Normally, they do not have windows, and the women sleep on straw on the floor covering themselves with a thin blanket. [1] In a Nepali survey around 2017, one district with around 49,000 households had over 500 of these huts.

  5. Study shows women need more sleep than men because their ...

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    For all the ladies out there who love hitting that 'snooze' button, we've got some great news for you. A scientific study has proven that women legitimately need more sleep than men.

  6. Flight attendants share the 16 most common misconceptions ...

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    "A common misconception is that since we sleep in so many different places, we must also sleep around." Flight attendants get to fly for free wherever and whenever they want "We fly standby, and ...

  7. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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    The sleeping position is the body configuration assumed by a person during or prior to sleeping. Six basic sleeping positions have been identified: [dubious – discuss] Fetus (41%) – curling up in a fetal position. This was the most common position, and is especially popular with women. Log (15%) – lying on one's side with the arms down ...

  8. Hypnagogia - Wikipedia

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    Hori et al. regard sleep onset hypnagogia as a state distinct from both wakefulness and sleep with unique electrophysiological, behavioral and subjective characteristics, [10] [12] while Germaine et al. have demonstrated a resemblance between the EEG power spectra of spontaneously occurring hypnagogic images, on the one hand, and those of both ...

  9. Culture and menstruation - Wikipedia

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    As a result, women who were menstruating were not allowed to visit any of the Kami shrines for the duration of their menstrual period. Even today, women are not allowed to enter Shinto shrines and temples during menstruation, and in some instances, women are completely banned from climbing the tops of sacred mountains due to their 'impurity'.