The story begins with Iichiro waking up, looking at the clock, guiltily asking himself whether he might sleep longer, and feeling both anxious and depressed by the realization that he has no reason to get up.
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Mr. Ellis says he began to understand the legitimacy of their different sleep needs after he was diagnosed with sleep apnea in 2008, had surgery to treat it and stopped getting tired in the afternoon.
"My parents worked nights and were worried about leaving us at home in case someone came in and hurt us, my father had to take tablets because he could not sleep, " he said.
Mr Yehoshua's warmest character is the old bakery owner, a man who ignores the need to sleep he is aware enough to know there will be plenty of time to sleep once he is gone yet who frets about doing the right thing before he dies.
Little by little he added sleep each night, fearing that the good news might not last.
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They arranged for an electric hospital bed, so that he could sleep with his back raised.
For the second straight year, he will sleep on the Saturday night lead.
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The electric heater and the old wood-burning range together would keep the room at fifty degrees, and he could sleep.
"I would like to sweep that into the past, " said Mr. Gross, who last year told The Wall Street Journal that he lost sleep over the failed strategy.
He said in the many years he has run a sleep clinic, he has seen perhaps half a dozen cases.
Galen had learned most of what he knew about sleep from Aristotle, who had pronounced confidently on the question (as he had on most scientific issues).
Murray told investigators he used the drugs to help Jackson sleep so he could be rested for rehearsals.
Mr. Ellis says he couldn't understand how anyone could need more sleep than he did.
Now a middle-aged man and aided by a prescient cat, he becomes Doctor Sleep.
His secret: making sure he got enough sleep, banning himself from second helpings.
He claims to sleep only five hours a night, his wife says four.
"My father could not even watch movies about the war because he could not sleep afterwards, " remembers his son, Sergei.
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Before he went to sleep that night in his Upper East Side apartment, a solution came together in his head.
He stresses that sleep disorders are a 24-hour phenomenon with sufferers spending their days stressed and unable to clear their heads at night.
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The owner, a cadaverously pale guy with red hair, suggested he go to Arromanches, unless he wanted to sleep in one of the auberges that stayed open all year round.
When a sleeper awakens, the strength of each synapse is thus the same relative to all the others, but all synapses are weaker than they were when he went to sleep.
He had told police he did not even know the area was frequented by prostitutes and that he was driving in the early hours of 1 December because he could not sleep.
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