Essays on Insomniac

The book ‘When the Sleeper Wakes’ is one of the unique works of H.G. Wells originally published in the year 1899. The protagonist of the story is a nineteenth-century man named Graham, an insomniac who falls asleep for 203 years and wakes up in the year 2100. After a two-century long sleep, Graham discovers himself in the mechanized city of New London, which greets him with urbane steel and glass . He finds powerful men in a combination of political tyrants and capitalist exploiters. Wells describes the future society as a herd of prole masses along a luxuriant transport system consisting of sidewalks. The society ...

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There are numerous factors both external and internal that can influence the quality and quantity of sleep. These factors are what lead people to use sleeping aids in order to develop sleep. This research paper therefore aims at identifying various ways in which sleeping aids hamper and impair daytime thinking and daydreaming among individuals.

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Day thinking and day dreams are those fountain spurting, spilling eccentric thoughts into a stream of consciousness. They result from one lacking enough sleep especially night and when this form a habit, these persons go for medication from the doctor and they are prescribed sleeping pills to ...

Insomnia is a health condition that manifests itself through difficulty in falling asleep or falling asleep but failing to stay asleep for a reasonable time. Medics employ two classes of categorizations for insomnia, these are, the cause and the duration. The former class includes primary and secondary insomnia while the latter class includes acute and chronic. Primary insomnia relates to sleeping problems that cannot be related to any health conditions while the secondary insomnia is the sleeping problems which can be related to a particular health condition. On the other hand, acute insomnia lasts for a limited duration say two weeks while chronic ...