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  2. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    12 hours (1 day proper: kalpa) of Brahma = 4.32 billion solar years (1,000 chatur-yugas; 14 manvantaras + 15 manvantara-sandhyas) 24 hours (1 day & night: kalpa + pralaya) of Brahma = 8.64 billion solar years; 30 days (1 month) of Brahma = 259.2 billion solar years; 12 months (1 year) of Brahma = 3.1104 trillion solar years

  3. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    One nonillionth of a second. rontosecond: 10 −27 s: One octillionth of a second. yoctosecond: 10 −24 s: One septillionth of a second. jiffy (physics) 3 × 10 −24 s: The amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum. zeptosecond: 10 −21 s: One sextillionth of a second.

  4. Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia

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    Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping during multiple periods over the course of 24 hours, in contrast to monophasic sleep, which is one period of sleep within 24 hours. Biphasic (or diphasic , bifurcated , or bimodal ) sleep refers to two periods, while polyphasic usually means more than two. [ 1 ]

  5. Prahara - Wikipedia

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    8th Prahara of the Day(3rd of the Night)(Ratri): 12am to 3am: Sleep time. While it is considered that there are 4 Praharas in the night, in practice with the inclusion of Brahmi Muhoorta into the Day hours, there are 5 praharas during the day and 3 during the night in contemporary life, each of 3 hours, and this seems to be the convention in ...

  6. Is 4 hours of sleep enough? What sleeping too little does to ...

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    But even one night of too little sleep can impact you the following day. Short-term health effects of sleeping four hours The day after sleeping for four hours, you'll likely experience a few ...

  7. What Is Deep Sleep? Understanding the 4 Sleep Cycles & Why ...

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    Most people get around 1.5 to two hours of slow-wave sleep if they get eight hours of shut-eye. This stage is key to waking up refreshed and ready for the day — and it’s what you’re hoping ...

  8. Sleep - Wikipedia

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    Children need many hours of sleep per day in order to develop and function properly: up to 18 hours for newborn babies, with a declining rate as a child ages. [67] Early in 2015, after a two-year study, [ 93 ] the National Sleep Foundation in the US announced newly revised recommendations as shown in the table below.

  9. Exercise and deep sleep give the brain a 24-hour boost - AOL

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    Improvement to cognitive performance caused by exercise could last for 24 hours, a new study shows. Scientists also linked getting 6 or more hours of sleep to better memory test scores the next day.