Sentence examples for equivalent of sleep from inspiring English sources

Sayer describes victims of encephalitis lethargica as suffering from "the metaphorical if not physiological, equivalent of sleep, or even death".

It offers plenty of advantages: no need to worry about seasons or the weather, for instance, not to mention the ability to grow around the clock (although a couple of hours a day are necessary, says Gus van der Feltz of Philips, for the plant equivalent of sleep).

In the course of family affairs that is the close-knit business of Hollywood, this is the equivalent of sleeping with your sister-in-law on Thanksgiving.

Each followed a similar diet, got equivalent amounts of sleep, and had similar caloric intakes and expenditures.

Because it is associated with a loss of monosynaptic reflexes and is suppressed by drugs known to inhibit Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (REM) sleep (e.g. antidepressant), the symptom is believed to be an equivalent of REM sleep atonia.

There is further speculation that TMS sleep applications could be implemented to confer a magnetically induced powernap where you could get the equivalent of eight hours sleep in a fraction of the time.

The PSM mode allows nodes to turn into two different states, active and doze states (equivalent to sleeping mode of a radio front end), and because there is no supervising identity, the network is synchronized.

It is supposed to be the equivalent of three hours' sleep.

"Drivers tell me that 45 to 60 minutes of this treatment is equivalent to 4 hours of sleep".

Studies show that 20-30 minutes of practicing "Yoga Nidra" is the equivalent to four hours of sleep!

Accelerometry includes various parameters including step count, total activity counts, metabolic equivalent of task, and sleeping time.