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[2] [3] The body responds to its environment by creating certain mind or body states such as anxiety, stress, and fear. [4] When the body is in these states, the muscles tense up. [5] Progressive muscle relaxation aims to reverse these body states back to more neutral, relaxed states. [6] The technique is a two-step process. [7]
Night Fantasies is a 1980 composition for piano by the American composer Elliott Carter. The work was commissioned by the pianists Charles Rosen , Paul Jacobs , Gilbert Kalish , and Ursula Oppens , all to whom the work is dedicated.
A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.
The startle reflex is a brainstem reflectory reaction (reflex) that serves to protect vulnerable parts, such as the back of the neck (whole-body startle) and the eyes (eyeblink) and facilitates escape from sudden stimuli. It is found across many different species, throughout all stages of life.
Waking up earlier in the morning increases the response. [11]Shift work: nurses working on morning shifts with very early awakening (between 4:00–5:30 a.m.) had a greater and prolonged cortisol awakening response than those on the late day shift (between 6:00–9:00 a.m.) or the night shift (between 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.). [12]
Cadaveric spasm, also known as postmortem spasm, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis. [1]
Sonnet 147 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
[87] [88] Children who sleep through the night and have few night waking episodes have higher cognitive attainments and easier temperaments than other children. [88] [89] [90] Sleep also influences language development. To test this, researchers taught infants a faux language and observed their recollection of the rules for that language. [91]