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bruxism: habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, esp. during sleep.

caffeinism: chronic toxicity caused by excessive intake of caffeine, characterized by anxiety, irritability, palpitations, insomnia, and digestive disturbances.

cataplexy: a condition characterized by sudden, brief attacks of muscle weakness sometimes causing the body to fall helplessly, that is usually triggered by strong emotion: often associated with narcolepsy.

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dreamwork: the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.

hypersomnia: a tendency to sleep excessively.

hypnagogic state: the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.

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hypnopompic: of or pertaining to the semiconscious state prior to complete wakefulness.

kleine levin syndrome: prolonged episodes of excessive sleepiness often accompanied by overeating, hallucinations, and electroencephalogram changes, usually beginning in adolescence.

micro-sleep: a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced esp. by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.

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morpheus: a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.

narcolepsy: a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.

night terror: a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.

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oneiric: of or pertaining to dreams.

oneirocritic: an interpreter of dreams.

oneiromancer: divination through dreams.

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rem sleep: a recurrent period of sleep, typically totaling about two hours a night, during which most dreaming occurs as the eyes move under closed lids and the skeletal muscles are deeply relaxed.

sandman: the man who, in fairy tales or folklore, puts sand in the eyes of children to make them sleepy.

somnambulate: to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.

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theta-rhythm: a pattern of brain waves having a regular frequency of 4 to 7 cycles per second as recorded by an electroencephalograph, observed during various states of light sleep or arousal.

pandiculation: yawning and stretching

somnus: The ancient Roman god of sleep, a son of Night and brother of Death.

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somniloquy: The act of talking in one's sleep.

nocturnality: Opening by night and closing by day, as certain flowers

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