Taking an anti-inflammatory medication such as ibuprofen- ideally before going to sleep -or upon awakening may help to reduce the severity of your hangover along with taking plenty of water.

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Other days it was clear upon reviewing sleep data that the accelerometer inside just can't differentiate between laziness and actual sleep.

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Before your trip, your doctor can advise whether melatonin is a good option for you and if so, the appropriate amount to take and when to take it (usually about an hour before the desired sleep time and either upon your return, during your trip, or both).

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More people are reporting sending text messages during their sleep, says Dr Kirstie Anderson, who runs the Neurology Sleep Service for the Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust.

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The cover automatically wakes Kindle Paperwhite upon opening and puts it to sleep when closed, making it easy to dive right back into the book.

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The cover wakes Kindle Fire HD automatically upon opening and puts it to sleep when closed, making it easy for the customer to dive right back into whatever content they're enjoying.

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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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So large a quantity of them enters into this river that at night one is unable to sleep, so great is the noise they make in falling upon the water.

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With a keen sense of dispossession, I wandered out of the neighborhood to find someplace to sleep, and discovered that I had barely begun to use the resources available to me when I came upon an undeveloped piece of land as wild as I could wish.

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