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  2. Insomnia - Wikipedia

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    Two-thirds of these patients wake up in the middle of the night, with more than half having trouble falling back to sleep after a middle-of-the-night awakening. [ 25 ] Early morning awakening is an awakening occurring earlier (more than 30 minutes) than desired with an inability to go back to sleep, and before total sleep time reaches 6.5 hours.

  3. The City That Never Sleeps (nickname) - Wikipedia

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    Outskirts of Nazirabazar, Dhaka at night. Although New York City is the most prominently recognized city termed "The City That Never Sleeps", [3] [4] and the city's subway system never closes, [5] the term has also been applied to other cities. Below is a list of cities that have also been called "the city that never sleeps": [6] [5]

  4. List of night deities - Wikipedia

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    The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo. A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions. The following is a list of night deities in various mythologies.

  5. Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia

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    The night hag is a generic name for a folkloric creature found in cultures around the world, and which is used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. A common description is that a person feels a presence of a supernatural malevolent being which immobilizes the person as if standing on the chest. [40] This phenomenon goes by many names.

  6. Familial natural short sleep - Wikipedia

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    Individuals with this trait are known for having the life-long ability of being able to sleep for a lesser amount of time than average people, usually 4 to 6 hours (less than the average sleeptime of 8 hours) each night while waking up feeling relatively well-rested, they also have a notable absence of any sort of consequence that derives from depriving oneself of sleep, something an average ...

  7. Music of the Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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    Quelbe is commonly performed by scratch bands, Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Nights being the most popular throughout the Virgin Islands, though their folk origin lies in individuals, who sang the songs in informal settings, celebrations and festivals. The music in most cases involved true stories where the listeners can identify events that ...

  8. Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia

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    A comparison of data collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey from 1965 to 1985 and 1998–2001 has been used to show that the median amount of sleep, napping, and resting done by the average adult American has changed by less than 0.7%, from a median of 482 minutes per day from 1965 through 1985 to 479 minutes ...

  9. Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite - Wikipedia

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    "Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite" (眠れない夜を抱いて, lit."Embracing the Sleepless Nights") is the 4th single by Zard [1] and released 5 August 1992 under B-Gram Records label.