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  • If you glimpse first light at 6 am and your body needs eight hours of sleep to feel truly rested, your SCN sets your body's time sleep-time at 10 pm.

    Sharon Glassman: Why Can't Women Sleep? Part II: How to Sleep Well on Sunday Night 2009

  • But if your correct wake-up time is 6 am and your SCN registers any kind of first light (TV, street -, computer -, alarm clock) at 1 or 3 am, it sets your sleep-time to that start-time.

    Sharon Glassman: Why Can't Women Sleep? Part II: How to Sleep Well on Sunday Night 2009

  • These sleep-time panics cause breathing difficulties, sweating, fear of dying or going insane, and a racing heart, just like their daytime counterparts, and are normally treated with the same mediation and therapies prescribed for daytime panic attacks.

    Janet Kinosian: A Short Guide To Understanding Your Nightmares 2009

  • Monstruwacans; for they in the little Pyramid had their sleep-time to commence at the eleventh hour; so that by this it was five hours advanced towards the time of waking; and Naani should have slept; nor have been abroad to the Tower of Observation, apart from her father.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And when I waked, my first memory was of the wondrous thing which had befallen in the sleep-time; for none in all this world could have known those words; save it had been the spirit of

    The Night Land 2007

  • And through all that remained of that sleep-time, did I converse with Naani, as might two lovers who shall presently part for ever.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And in this wise passed three days and nights; yet both in the sleep-time and the time of waking did great multitudes cease not to watch; so that many went hungry for sleep, as in truth did I.

    The Night Land 2007

  • If your child always drinks from a cup except at bedtime, at nap time, and during the night, you will be weaning her altogether if you discontinue all the sleep-time feedings.

    Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006

  • If your child always drinks from a cup except at bedtime, at nap time, and during the night, you will be weaning her altogether if you discontinue all the sleep-time feedings.

    Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006

  • Thanks to the 15-hour workdays I have been putting in on a fairly regular basis, most of my sleep-time is filled with dreams which generally include one of the following themes:

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2006

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