If the person is reclining comfortably, he or she may transition into sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations, or a sleep-onset 1968 Olympic long jump medalist Bob Beamon on understanding that he had broken the previous world record by over 0.5 meters ( 2 feet ).
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There is REM and non-REM sleep, and Stages I through IV, and " hypnagogic hallucinations, " and " circadian rhythms " to know about, but, in my own particular Book, what Parents of the Sleepless ( the gothic terminology of one reviewer ) are advised to do goes something like the following scenario.
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And although much of what Alvarez explores is familiar, he does illuminate particulars like the mind's capacity to solve problems during sleep; the evolution of dream analysis from Freud's time to the present, and the phenomenon of hypnagogic hallucinations, or what Alvarez describes as " the flickering images and voices that well up just before sleep takes over ."
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This explanation could also apply to normal sleepers whose commands to their muscles are suppressed . ) ( Note that conventional sleepwalking takes place during slow-wave sleep . ) Narcolepsy by contrast seems to involve excessive and unwanted REM atonia i . e ., cataplexy and excessive daytime sleepiness while awake, hypnagogic hallucinations before entering slow-wave sleep, or sleep paralysis while waking.
