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  2. Confusional arousal - Wikipedia

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    Confusional arousals are accompanied by mental confusion and disorientation, relative lack of response to environmental stimuli, and difficulty of awakening the subject. [3] [4] [5] Vocalisation accompanied with coherent speech is common. [3] Patients may appear upset, and some of them become aggressive or agitated. [4]

  3. Rapid eye movement sleep - Wikipedia

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    The naturally rude awakening which results may elicit changes in the organism which necessarily exceed the simple absence of a sleep phase. [ 49 ] : 686–687 This method also stops working after about 3 days as the subjects (typically rats) lose their will to avoid the water. [ 56 ]

  4. Yawn - Wikipedia

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    A yawn is a reflex in vertebrate animals characterized by a long inspiratory phase with gradual mouth gaping, followed by a brief climax (or acme) with muscle stretching, and a rapid expiratory phase with muscle relaxation, which typically lasts a few seconds.

  5. Rude Awakening (film) - Wikipedia

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    "Rude Awakening is such a hapless movie that one is tempted to be charitable toward it, to describe it as a sincere idea gone horribly wrong, rather than as an exercise in idiocy. But kindness is the wrong policy here, I think; the perpetrators of this film should instead be encouraged to seek out entirely new directions for their next work...

  6. Sleepwalking - Wikipedia

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    They are often disoriented, consequent to awakening: the sleepwalker may be confused and perplexed, and might not know why or how they got out of bed; however, the disorientation will fade within minutes. They may talk while sleepwalking, but the talk typically does not make sense to the observer. There are varying degrees of amnesia associated ...

  7. Sleep cycle - Wikipedia

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    The cycle can be defined as lasting from the end of one REM period to the end of the next, [13] or from the beginning of REM, or from the beginning of non-REM stage 2 (the decision of how to mark the periods makes a difference for research purposes, because of the unavoidable inclusion or exclusion of the night's first NREM or its final REM ...

  8. Rude Awakening - Wikipedia

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    Rude Awakening, a gallery show by John S. Boskovich inspired by the band Rude Awakening; Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, a 2007 off-Broadway revue; The Rude Awakening, a 1998 album by the Cocoa Brovaz; The Rude Awakening Show, a radio show; They Hunger 3: Rude Awakening, a video game; The Rude Awakening, a wrestling move performed by Rick Rude

  9. Billie Frank (Rude Awakening) - Wikipedia

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    Wilhelmina "Billie" Frank is a fictional character, played by Sherilyn Fenn on the US television sitcom, Rude Awakening, originally run by Showtime from 1998 to 2001. [1] One of the show's taglines describe the character of Billie as: "Rude. Bitchy. Promiscuous.