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  2. Microsleep - Wikipedia

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    A microsleep is a sudden temporary episode of sleep or drowsiness which may last for a few seconds where an individual fails to respond to some arbitrary sensory input and becomes unconscious. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Episodes of microsleep occur when an individual loses and regains awareness after a brief lapse in consciousness, often without warning, or ...

  3. Randy Gardner sleep deprivation experiment - Wikipedia

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    Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep.In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.

  4. Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency [2] or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health.

  5. Hypnagogia - Wikipedia

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    Microsleep (short episodes of immediate sleep onset) may intrude into wakefulness at any time in the wakefulness-sleep cycle, due to sleep deprivation and other conditions, [34] resulting in impaired cognition and even amnesia. [12]

  6. Hypnic jerk - Wikipedia

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    A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.

  7. Pilot fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Microsleep cases for pilots on outgoing flights were half compared to the number on incoming flights back to the home base showing that fatigue is more prevalent on flights returning home. Pilots are more prone to microsleeps during the cruise phase of the flight while they are more alert and less likely to experience microsleeps during the ...

  8. Hypnopompia - Wikipedia

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    Hypnopompia (also known as hypnopompic state) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers.Its mirror is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical and have a different phenomenological character.

  9. Talk:Microsleep - Wikipedia

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    12 Carbon Dioxide buildup in vehicle cabs can cause microsleep. 1 comment. 13 ...