Alarm clocks are the bane of humanity. Sleep inertia, the decline in motor dexterity, subjective feeling of grogginess, and impaired state of awareness and mental performance is normal after awakening from even a light sleep. Scientific studies reveal that abruptly awakening from a deep sleep amplifies the severity and duration of sleep inertia.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST!

~ Stan Jacobs

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... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

~ Ryan Hurd

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Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

~ John Cage

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I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along the frenetic edges of my mind. The Sandman was nowhere to be found, as i slipped further away from sleep.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

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Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

~ David Z. Hirsch

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