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Artists depict yume no seirei as an emaciated, elderly man. He wears a loose white robe, which reveals his frail body and exposed ribcage. His thin wispy hair flows behind him in a ghostly motion. In his right hand he holds a cane and with his left he reaches out, beckoning. The bottom half of his body eerily fades away as if he is disappearing.
A circadian rhythm is an entrainable, endogenous, biological activity that has a period of roughly twenty-four hours. This internal time-keeping mechanism is centralized in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of humans, and allows for the internal physiological mechanisms underlying sleep and alertness to become synchronized to external environmental cues, like the light-dark cycle. [2]
Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder causes a person's sleep–wake cycle to move around the clock every day, to a degree dependent on the length of the cycle. This is known as free-running sleep. [citation needed] People with the disorder may have an especially hard time adjusting to changes in "regular" sleep–wake cycles, such as vacations ...
Such Pretty Flowers. If the title didn't creep you out enough, get ready for the summary. A declared suicide victim's girlfriend, Maura, becomes the prime suspect of an investigation after the ...
Sleepwalking. Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a phenomenon of combined sleep and wakefulness. [ 1] It is classified as a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. [ 2] It occurs during slow wave stage of sleep, in a state of low consciousness, with performance of activities that are usually performed during ...
Neurology. Congenital insensitivity to pain ( CIP ), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. [ 1] The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN group of disorders, which have more specific signs and cause.
The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. It is a phenomenon in which the sleeper feels the presence of a supernatural, malevolent being which immobilizes the person as if sitting on their chest or the foot of their bed. The word "night-mare" or "nightmare ...
Jonti Picking, also known as Weebl, has created many Flash cartoons which are posted on the Internet. His best known cartoon, Weebl and Bob, once aired in short episodes on MTV. Other popular cartoons include Badgers and Catface. Picking has also created several interactive videogames.