I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Ayrton stole carefully along the between-decks, strewn with numerous sleepers, overcome more by drunkenness than sleep.
But, as roarings of rather a suspicious nature had been heard during the evening, a good fire was made up for the night, so as to protect the sleepers with its crackling flames.
The dinner-bell rang while she was still wandering happily in "Nelly's Silver Mine," and she ran down to find that Boo had laid out a railroad all across her neat room, using bits of coal for sleepers and books for rails, over which he was dragging the yellow sled laden with a dismayed kitten, the tailless dog, and the remains of the sausage, evidently on its way to the tomb, for Boo took bites at it now and then, no other lunch being offered him.
Two of the flags were set up in heaps of loose stones between the sleepers of the down line.
The very sleepers on which the rails lay were a delightful path to travel by—just far enough apart to serve as the stepping-stones in a game of foaming torrents hastily organised by Bobbie.
The lights of the great Garden were out; the benches in the Square were filled with sleepers in postures so strange that beside them the writhing figures in Dore's illustrations of the Inferno would have straightened into tailor's dummies.
Namely, "regular sleepers got significantly higher light levels during the daytime, and significantly lower light levels at night than irregular sleepers who slept more during daytime hours and less during nighttime hours," he explains.
Dr Jamie Zeitzer, an expert in sleep research from Stanford University, says, "The problem with interpreting this as 'long sleep is bad for you' is that we don't know why the long sleepers have bad outcomes.
This digital alarm clock launches a rotor into the air that flies around the room as the alarm sounds, hovering up to 9' in the air, and will not cease ringing until the rotor is returned to the alarm clock base, compelling even the most stubborn sleepers to get out of bed on time.
" You Snooze, You Win , Heavy sleepers and sleep-deprived people use the alarm clock to terminate sleep unnaturally, says Dr.
A 2014 poll that surveyed about 1,000 married British people found that naked sleepers were most content in their relationships.
Idzikowski added, fetal sleepers tend to be quite personable, even if they come off as shy upon first meeting people.
It may also explain why some people are light sleepers, able to operate on only a few hours of sleep.
Late sleepers more sedentary and find it harder to exercise, study found.
The best sleepers, in terms of occupations, are blue-collar workers and those who work in sales, according to the report.
A company in Shanghai is offering an annual salary of 100,000 RMB to recruit "professional sleepers.
Studies have found that when sleepers had an expectation they'd be woken up at a certain time, there were higher levels of the hormone adrenocorticotropin, or ACTH, in their blood.
All told, by the end of two weeks, the six-hour sleepers were as impaired as those who, in another Dinges study, had been sleep-deprived for 24 hours straight — the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.
After all, having someone tossing and turning, snoring, and talking in their sleep beside you can affect even the deepest sleepers.
