Sleep Hygiene is called the conditions as well as practices, which promote continuous and effective sleeping process. To such conditions and practices belong bedtime routines, regular bed and arise times. This term is also applied to describe regular getting enough sleep to avoid sleepiness during the daytime. In addition, there are people, for whom this can also refer to limiting beverages, containing alcohol and caffeine, before bedtime and using exercise, environmental factors and nutrition in such a way, that they enhance, and not disturb their restful sleep.
Sleep Hyperhidosis is called the phenomenon of the extreme sweating during sleep.
Sleep Inertia is the combination of feelings of grogginess and / or sleepiness, which lasts longer than 10 to 20 minutes after a person has waked up. To symptoms of Sleep Inertia belong: confusion, disorientation of behavior and impaired cognitive and sensory – motor performance along with the thing, which goes under the scientific term “hypovigilance”, which means low vigilance. Sleep Inertia usually occurs when someone is aroused from deep sleep stage during the first part of the night.
Sleep Latency is called the time interval between going to bed and sleep onset.
Sleep Maintenance is any difficulty with maintaining deep sleep, which does not get interrupted all night long. However, in case if someone sleep is disturbed, it often becomes too difficult for a person to fall asleep again.
Sleep Onset means any difficulty of falling asleep.
Sleep Paralysis is the term, which is applied to describe the temporary inability of a person to talk and / or move during the period of falling asleep and / or waking up. Sleep Paralysis is considered to be the normal phenomenon during the REM sleep.
Sleep Talking means the process of uttering of sounds during sleep without being aware of this. As a rule Sleep Talking occurs during the REM sleep, and it either represents a motor breakthrough of dream speech, or in the course of transitory arousals from NREMS and other stages of sleep. The person is not consciousness and he or she is not able to retain the memory of his or her talking. To the Sleep Talking symptoms belong:
• Anxiety disorders and / or other possible association with some psychiatric disorders;
• Febrile illness (fever) and / or other possible associations with some medical disorders;
• REM sleep behavior disorder;
• Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, sleepwalking and / or other possible sleep disorders;
• Speech or utterance during sleep;
• Polysomnography shows Sleep Talking episodes, which can occur during any stage of sleep;
• Episodes, which have not association with awareness of talking.
Sleepiness is the condition during which the subject finds it difficult to keep the wakeful condition and fall asleep, in case if he or she is not kept aroused in some active way.
Sleepwalking is also called somnambulism. It belongs to sleep disorders, and occurs when some person gets out of his or her bed and walks around during sleep. As a rule this can take place during the first third of the night during deep NREM sleep period (these are stages 3 and 4). In according to statistics, about 10 percent of all people on Earth suffer from Sleepwalking. This phenomenon is considered to be most common among children of the age form 4 to 12. Moreover, according to some investigations, conducted, boys sleepwalk more frequently than girls and that usually takes place between the ages of 11 and 12.
Snoring is called the noise, which is produced with inspiratory respiration during sleep because of the soft palate and the pillars of the oropharyngeal inlet vibration. In accordance with the statistics, about 45 percent of adult people snore from time to time and more than 25 percent are considered to be habitual snores. In addition, males and overweight people are reported to suffer from snoring more. It is possible that problem snores may have the Obstructive Sleep Apnea developed.
Somniloquy is the process, as well as the phenomenon of talking while being asleep.
Somnipathy is the name of the sleep disorder.
Somniphobia is the term, which is applied with the aim of describing fear of sleep, and / fear of falling asleep. This is related to anxiety disorders.
Soothing means bringing comfort, calmness, peacefulness, quiety.
Stanford Sleepiness Scale is the rating scale, which consists of seven numbered statements; each of them descries subjective levels of sleepiness / alertness.
Suprachiasmatic Nucleon is called the part of the brain, which is situated in the hypothalamus, where the biological clock contained.
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