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[81] [82] ALP is given the final word, as the book closes on a version of her Letter [83] and her final long monologue, in which she tries to wake her sleeping husband, declaring "Rise up, man of the hooths, you have slept so long!", [84] and remembers a walk they once took, and hopes for its re-occurrence. At the close of her monologue, ALP ...
The word hypnagogia is sometimes used in a restricted sense to refer to the onset of sleep, and contrasted with hypnopompia, Frederic Myers's term for waking up. [2] However, hypnagogia is also regularly employed in a more general sense that covers both falling asleep and waking up.
Pilot Brian Engle, immediately after a difficult flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles, learns that his ex-wife Anne has died in an accident and boards a red-eye flight to Boston as a passenger. A flight attendant speaks of an unusual phenomenon over the Mojave Desert that resembles an aurora. Brian falls asleep during takeoff, having been awake ...
The Sleeper Awakes (When the Sleeper Wakes) is an 1899 dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed late 21st to early 22nd century London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and ...
Katie Holmes understands the show must go on. The actress stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Nov. 27 to discuss her role playing Mrs. Webb in the Broadway revival of Our Town ...
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis.It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...
The vision loss was due to an eye infection he sustained while spending the summer in the south of France, he noted. "It kind of floored me, and I can't see anything. I can’t read anything, I ...
Sleep research conducted in the 1990s showed that such waking up during the night may be a natural sleep pattern, rather than a form of insomnia. [2] If interrupted sleep (called "biphasic sleeping" or " bimodal sleep ") is perceived as normal and not referred to as "insomnia", less distress is caused and a return to sleep usually occurs after ...