Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.
Without question, I wake every night five times.
Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.
Restful sleep is a key ingredient to living a miraculous life. I'm not saying we need eight or ten hours a night to feel fully rested. In fact, sometimes less sleep can be more restorative than many hours. The key is to have real sleep... the drooling-on-the-pillow kind of sleep.
I have always had disrupted, broken sleep.
When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.
By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.
the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
Something is wrong with me - no matter how late I go to sleep, I still wake up really early.
I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.
