Information comes in different packages Think about the different types of information you have stored in your memory - the name of your dentist your PIN number the taste of chocolate the sound of train whistle the scent of a rose the feeling of fear the knowledge of how to drive a car your intention to pick up bread on the way home etc etc. ... The role of sleep in memory some evidence that neuronal connections may be remodelled during sleep, and this may explain why young birds and mammals need so much more sleep than adults some memory tasks appear to be mor...

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Sleep is the counterpoint to waking consciousness and the logic of daytime pursuits. ... Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. ... Prospero acknowledges how important to our lives sleep and dreams are. We enter life from a sleep and re-enter sleep at the end. ... He will find her under the spell of the sleeping medicine and assume her dead. ...

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Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty, or Briar Rose in the Grimms' telling, endures more hardships than a pleasant hundred years' sleep in her earlier incarnations. ... Instead of a Prince, our hero is a King, who comes across the Sleeping Beauty (Talia) in the woods. As she won't wake up no matter how much he shouts, he rapes her instead of awakening her with a kiss, then goes home to his wife. Talia, still sleeping, gives birth to twins (Sun and Moon). ... The Prince does not even kiss the sleeping Princess, she just happens to wake up as he kneels beside her. ...

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There is not much to do after the sun goes down so I just go to bed and get another great nights sleep for my next day of hard work. ... When the sun went down, after a tiring days work I started to head home. ... I now go to bed and get another great nights sleep for my next day of hard work. ... When I got home my wife was beginning to make dinner. ... Then I put my son to bed and went to bed reasonably early as I was very tired and wanted to get a good night sleep so I was not tired tomorrow. ...

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In the past, it was unthinkable to eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner at a fast food joint, because it was more common and traditional to eat at home with your family. ... In 1970 the amount of money spent on fast food restaurants represented 25 percent of total food spending's, by 1999 it rose to 47.5 percent of total food spending's, and finally by 2010, 53 percent of money meant for food had been spent way from home. ... The results of the study showed that percentage of individuals who consumed a home dinner decreased from 89.2% to 75.9%; eating a dinner prepared outside of the hous...

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I arrived home at 1:00 in the morning. ... "Then I came home and spent some time in the garden.... "I can't sleep!... She just died in her sleep. ... "I'm catching the next plane and I'll be home as soon as possible....

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It is a fact that we all must sleep. ... There are four stages of sleep: Stage 1: This is the first stage of sleep. It is a very light sleep. ... Stage 4: The deepest sleep of all. ... What was it like coming home from school, what did I do in my classes, what did I have for lunch, and so on. ...

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Lack of sunlight causes the melatonin (a hormone related to sleep) to produce. When we sleep, melatonin is released because it is a chemical that is increased by darkness. ... Sleep Length B. ... Suggested solutions are to spend more time outside, add more light to your home and office, or to get a light box. ... Lethargy, or need for sleep - feeling the need to sleep longer, being too tired to function, or go to about your daily activities. ...

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However, I was in so much pain, he said I just needed to be put to sleep. ... I was laying in a hospital bed for hours waiting to get put to sleep and I could not eat or drink before the surgery; I was starving. Once I went into the room to get put to sleep, they put an IV in my right arm and it stayed there for ten minutes. ... It was better putting me to sleep after all. ... So I went home, and in a few days I had to go back to his office to get a check up. ...

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One time as they walked home from school a few neighborhood boys began to bother them. ... In Sula's home there was no one to look to for guidance. ... After having a chat with her lifelong friend she puts Eva in an old folk's home and sleeps with Jude. After Sula sleeps with Jude her and Nel are no longer friends. ... Sula begins to sleep with other women's husbands and discarding them after she is done with them. ...

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After returning home, Billy goes on a radio show in New York City to talk about his abduction by aliens in 1967. His daughter discovers his proselytizing and brings him home, concerned for his sanity. ... Billy is now forty-one years old visiting his mother in a nursing home. ... After the luncheon, Billy returns to his stately home. ... They must take turns sleeping and standing, and they pass a helmet as a chamber pot. ...

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He has difficulty getting to sleep and has not slept, he says, for eight years. ... Queen Alcyone, anxious at home and awaiting his return, sends to the east and west looking for him. ... Juno immediately sends Alcyone to sleep, and he sends a messenger to  Morpheus, the god of sleep. ... Juno's messenger goes to the dark valley where the gods Morpheus and Eclympasteyr sleep. ... He would give this gift to obtain the swift and deep sleep that Alcyone did when Juno answered her prayer. ...

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The King made sure that she helped the frog up so that he could eat off of her plate and later he ensured that he brought the frog to her room to sleep. She told the frog to sleep in the corner, but the frog told her that she must help him into her bed or else he would tell her father. ... The frogs insistence that the princess carry him to her room so that they could both lie down and sleep could be interpreted as a romantic pass. ... A man and his wife are eating their dinner, a roasted chicken, by the door of their home. ... By the end of the day she would be forced to sleep in the piles of...

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Kino, Juana, and the rest of the neighborhood left for home. ... When he goes to bed, he buries the pearl under his sleeping mat. And the family falls asleep While Kino is sleeping, he dreams of Coyotito's future success, but then Kino suddenly feels the sense of evil around, he then woke up his wife. ... He then told her to stop talking so that they could sleep and that they will be selling the pearl in the morning when they wake up. ...

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Narrator says, "she was abandoned in front of a plantation home." ... Her husband had found Desiree sleeping next to a pillar as he rode through the gateway of the Valmonde home in southern Louisiana. ... Sometimes he stays away from home for long periods. ... On the bed, her baby sleeps soundly. ... As a husband, Armand clearly rules the home. ...

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Once she arrived at his home, surprisingly, she found they were alone. ... Afterwards, they returned to Butlers home and suddenly he forcefully backs her against the wall to where she can barely move. ... This relationship started when she was going on her first trip away from home. ... The young woman stated that over the next two years Butler kept initiating sex with her- - in his car, at his home, at her fathers home, in hotels, and in a train bathroom on a class trip to Germany. ... Kids from broken homes or whose fathers travel a lot. ...

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After the war, the narrator went home, married, and had kids, all of whom are grown now. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ... He jumps forward to 1965, when he is a middle-aged man visiting his mother in a nursing home. ...

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So he tells Puck, Oberon's servant, to put a magic flower juice on her eyelids while she is sleeping. ... In hopes of solving the problem, Puck places magic juice on Demetrius while he is sleeping. ... Puck persuades them to sleep all together and more of the antidote is placed on the eyes of Lysander. ... This fairy kingdom is essentially a dream, which appears whenever reason goes to sleep, and during this time Oberon controls all things. ... The East exists both during and after sleep. ...

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The young waiter is in a hurry to leave the café and the company of the old man: " I want to go home to bed. ... However, the older waiter has trouble sleeping: "He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. ... By sleeping during the daylight, ignoring the truth of the daylight, and mocking religion, the older waiter helps to subdue his fears of confronting his own nothingness. ... Every night the Gentleman thinks what it would be like to be able to go home to his wife he had once been with and how the clean and pleasant café is a waste of his tim...

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Her grandmother took away from the home and raised her into a beautiful young woman. ... She is unsure of his reason for the necessary of his presence at her home. ... During the night, Lorraine (Ike's girlfriend) played by Penny Johnson, enters the room where Anne Mae was sleeping and points a chrome revolver at her. ... When Ike returns home, Anne Mae is laying on the couch. ... They bought a new home and Anne Mae also had another child. ...

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We stopped for a few hours per night for sleep. ... It reminded me of the time the cow died on the vacant farm next to my childhood home. ... I looked for a place to sleep. ... Finally, a clear spot near the stream, maybe I could sleep a little. The cool night air and the horrible stench made sleeping difficult. ...

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In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting th...

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But most suicides are committed by white males from middle-class homes. ... Long periods of sitting and staring into space or sleeping during the day can be signs of serious depression. ... Change in eating and sleeping habits. ... Another indication of trouble is a change in sleeping habits. Some depressed people sleep most of the day, while others have trouble sleeping. ...

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Following his mother's affair with the "blue-eyed stranger" and the snake bite she got shortly after, Vittorio describes the changes that are manifesting in his home and the relationships between his family and the people of Valle del Sole. ... Fabrizio is a loyal friend and he was the one who Fabrizio relied on as a distraction from the troubles at his home. ... She then begins to indulge in excessive consumption of alcohol and prescription sleeping pills to relieve and forget her pain. In a state of delirium Claudette calls her mother and soon after her mother arrives to her home. ....

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His other personality takes over when he thinks that he is sleeping. ... These support groups give him a sense of belonging, and suddenly Jack can sleep again. ... As Project Mayhem progresses, Jack discovers that Tyler is suddenly present less and less and that Jack has begun to sleep more and more. ... Tyler comes out when the narrator thinks that he is sleeping, and accomplishes everything that Jack subconsciously desires. ... When the boss confronts Jack asking what he thinks about the matter, Jack responds: "I say, it sounds like some dangerous psychotic killer wrote this, and thi...

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