enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hypnagogia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

    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.

  3. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_Dictionary_Board

    In 1977, the Board published the first edition of Urdu Lughat, a 22-volume comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language. [2] The dictionary had 20,000 pages, including 220,000 words. [3] In 2009, Pakistani feminist poet Fahmida Riaz was appointed as the Chief Editor of the Board. [4] In 2010, the Board published one last edition Urdu Lughat. [3]

  4. Sleep inertia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_inertia

    Sleep inertia is a physiological state of impaired cognitive and sensory-motor performance that is present immediately after awakening. It persists during the transition of sleep to wakefulness, where an individual will experience feelings of drowsiness, disorientation and a decline in motor dexterity.

  5. Middle-of-the-night insomnia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-of-the-night_insomnia

    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 ...

  6. Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of full-body paralysis. [1] [2] During an episode, the person may hallucinate (hear, feel, or see things that are not there), which often results in fear. [1] [3] Episodes generally last no more than a few minutes. [2]

  7. Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation

    Sleep deprivation can sometimes be self-imposed due to a lack of desire to sleep or the habitual use of stimulant drugs. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination is a need to stay up late after a busy day to feel like the day is longer, leading to sleep deprivation from staying up and wanting to make the day "seem/feel" longer. [136]

  8. Category:Urdu-language words and phrases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urdu-language...

    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not an article about a word or phrase. See as an example Category:English words.

  9. Sleep - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep

    Genetics and sex have some influence on chronotype, but so do habits. Chronotype is also liable to change over the course of a person's lifetime. Seven-year-olds are better disposed to wake up early in the morning than are fifteen-year-olds. [26] [25] Chronotypes far outside the normal range are called circadian rhythm sleep disorders. [45]