Most people will push themselves to the limit in most given occasions. But while people would say that they can handle being awake on extended hours, it may soon catch up on you. Well hopefully it would not be at special events where you may catch yourself falling asleep technically and make a fool of yourself.
Sleepyheads will f
Sooner or later, people who are on the go will have to take heed that lack of sleep may claim lives if not incapacitate people. Such mishaps can be seen. Many point this towards falling asleep behind the wheel or being drunk which many of us now is a prime reason for falling into these dizzy traps we encounter.
We all want to get to
Check out this article on “Snooze, you win”. It’s got some great information and will add to your list of excuses for falling asleep in work.
When billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett broke the record for around-the-world solo jet flight last March, he slept just 60 minutes in 67 hours of flight time — 60 minutes broken into two- and three-minute naps. “I slept when I needed it and awoke refreshed,” he says. Fossett, w
Well, I guess the twitch that people do (including myself) right after falling asleep is perfectly normal according to some researchers.
This strange falling sensation and muscle twitch is known as a hypnagogic myoclonic twitch or “Hypnic jerk” If this has happened to you on more than one occasion, don’t worry, you are not alone. Close to 70 percent of all people experience this phenomenon just after nodding off, according to a rec
Wikipedia has a nice description of sleep paralysis:
a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis)
Stanford University has a nice definition of sleep paralysis too.
