deep sleep

deep sleep

A sound slumber. Good luck waking Eric when he's in a deep sleep—five alarms couldn't get that guy moving! I feel much better now that I've had a deep sleep for the first time all week!
See also: deep, sleep
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • fast asleep
  • be out for the count
  • in at the deep end
  • go off the deep end
  • thrown
  • jump off the deep end
  • cork high and bottle deep
  • dead asleep
  • fall into the trap
  • fall into the trap of (doing something)
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Loss of deep sleep lessens our ability to remove them.
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If you have eight hours' sleep you probably get 45 minutes of a deep sleep which recharges you but I never get that.
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bull REM typically occurs when you're coming out of deep sleep and helps with mental restoration.
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Slow-wave sleep is the stage of deep sleep that is necessary for memory consolidation and for waking up refreshed.
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Combine this with the necessity of sleep to make those brain wave connections for memories to be stored, and the importance of deep sleep is apparent.
Sleep loss can affect memory in seniors
Good quality sleep consists of 4-5 cycles of sleep where each cycle has 40 per cent superficial sleep, 40 per cent deep sleep and 20 per cent rapid eye movement phase or dream phase.
90% of UAE residents are sleep deprived
Try not to sleep for longer than 20 minutes as your body will go into deep sleep and you will wake from this feeling tired and groggy, he added.
'Proper sleep essential during Ramadan fasting': Experts advised
Good quality sleep consists of four to five cycles of sleep where each cycle has 40 per cent superficial sleep, 40 per cent deep sleep and 20 per cent rapid eye movement phase or dream phase.
Sleep well to avoid fatigue after change of body routine
It is during the Non-REM sleep where you have that initial stage of drowsiness which progress to light sleep then deep sleep. When a baby starts to wake up from deep sleep back to the stage of drowsiness, this becomes a challenge to parents and caregivers because they often "wake up with a tantrum." There is no one formula in handling each child's "wake-up tantrum," but here are common ways on how to ease their transition to wakefulness:
Bed time tantrums
London, Mar.6 (ONA) According to one study, eating kiwi fruit before bed helps deep sleep. But which other foodstuffs may aid a long and peaceful slumber?
Eat Yourself to Sleep the Foods that Can Help Get a Good Night's Rest
The results show that men and women get around the same mix of light and deep sleep on any given night.
Fitbit analyzed data on 6 billion nights of sleep - with fascinating results
The researchers found that the obese patients with type 2 diabetes showed a positive correlation between plasma leptin levels and a parameter for deep sleep assessed by delta power during the first sleep cycle.
Leptin Tied to Sleep Quality in Obese Patients With T2DM; Leptin tied to delta power in 1st sleep cycle, not total sleep time; findings not seen in non-obese patients
Slow and speedy brainwaves during deep sleep must sync up at exactly the right moment to retain new memories, according to new UC Berkeley research.
Off Sync Brain Waves Associated With Memory Decline