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In one study, members of the swim team maintained their usual sleep-waking pattern for two weeks and then increased to ten hours of sleep a day for six to seven weeks.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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In one study, members of the swim team maintained their usual sleep-waking pattern for two weeks and then increased to ten hours of sleep a day for six to seven weeks.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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In one study, members of the swim team maintained their usual sleep-waking pattern for two weeks and then increased to ten hours of sleep a day for six to seven weeks.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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I call the act of ignoring homeless people who are right in front of our eyes, "sleep-waking past homeless people."
Christine Schanes: Homelessness Myth #5: Sleep-Walking Will End Homelessness 2010
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The childlike, sleep-waking eyes of her moment of perfect virginity looked into his, unseeing.
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To illustrate the former take the terms sleep-sleeping horse-man; to illustrate the latter take the terms sleep-waking horse-man.
Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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To illustrate the former take the terms sleep-sleeping horse-man; to illustrate the latter take the terms sleep-waking horse-man.
PRIOR ANALYTICS Aristotle 1989
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Presently, however, she saw the maid, was agitated, had an hysteric fit, and passed into the sleep-waking state.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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In a sort of sleep-waking, vague, unconscious way she opened her eyes, which were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft, voluptuous voice, such as I had never heard from her lips: --
Dracula 1897
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Then, I washed and dressed while they knocked the furniture about and made a dust; and so, in a sort of dream or sleep-waking, I found myself sitting by the fire again, waiting for - Him - to come to breakfast.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
Gammerstang commented on the word sleep-waking
(noun) - In the state of one mesmerized, who is asleep and awake at the same time. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850
January 27, 2018