Sleepwalking

2 A.M. It was about 2 A.M. when my sister woke me up while I was trying to get into my nephew’s crib. Apparently I did that often. She used to wake me up all the time because I was sleepwalking. Idiosyncrasy? Maybe. Annoying? Definitely. It took me six years to stop and question why my sister was already awake that night. Little did I know that six years later, we would be switching roles. Instead of me being the annoying younger sibling, now he is and I am the older sister.…

important for human beings. College students need nine hours of sleep a night, however are only receiving six. Without the proper sleeping patterns, sleeping disorders can take place. Insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, night terrors, along with sleepwalking is all possible disorders that can occur to an individual. Sleeping disorders influenced my thinking because if I do not receive enough hours, my attitude towards life can become negative, my reaction time will be slowed down, along with the…

Committing a crime always comes with a price. Whether that is the tangible physicality of the consequences, or that of a mental one, it takes a toll on a person. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth conveys such an example in a way that shows how internal struggles can alter a person greatly, and cause them to become someone they one may have never thought they would have become. The couple Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are differently involved in the murders, and they are significant because each death…

Scottish nobleman, who plays a pivotal role in the events of the production. During the course of the play, Lady Macbeth goes from terrifying audiences with her otherworldly power and ruthless approach to the play’s terrible deeds to becoming a sleepwalking madwoman, wracked by the guilt from her actions and despairing at her newfound subservience to her husband. Her relevance to the play ends with a servant’s statement that she,’ By self and violent hands took off her life.’ During her…

In the horror novel Dracula, Bram Stoker utilizes the symbolic elements in the story to create the theme that any good can defeat any evil(or the mystery solving process). Specifically, the symbolic elements help establish the integrity and beliefs of the main characters. The allusions to christianity and garlic help characterize Dracula as the blood-sucking demon he is. The novel begins with Jonathan staying in a town near Castle Dracula. The night before he travels, the innkeeper “tak[es] a…

The Conjuring 2" opens with famous ghostbusters Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) researching the outcome of the murders that got to be known as "The Amityville Horror." Lorraine has a one of a kind capacity to speak with extraordinary creatures and has been requested that affirm that what happened at Amityville was evil in nature and not only a maniacal patriarch. While lounging around a table in the DeFeo lounge area, Lorraine has an out-of-body experience that permits her…

characterized by delta waves, which are slower than the theta waves of stages 1 and 2. Sleep stage 3 is characterized by light sleep patterns, unlike stage 4, which is the deepest stage of sleep. It is usually around this period that any cases of sleepwalking and bedwetting would happen. Stages 3 and 4 are also the periods in the body’s joints and muscles heal themselves. REM sleep is characterized by the production of alpha waves, which are considerably faster than theta waves. The alpha…

extreme daytime sleepiness and sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks that last from less than a minute to an hour. Other common sleeping disorders are REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) which is the loss of muscle tone that causes normal REM paralysis, Sleepwalking and Sleeptalking which typically occurs…

(http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/lucy-westenra.html). Lucy becomes targeted by Dracula early on in the story. The "group of good guys" try to heal Lucy as her blood seems to keep mysteriously seeming to disappear. Lucy is discovered to have been "sleepwalking" off to mysterious places and seems to be growing weaker. Eventually dying and being buried in a tomb, the group think she is dead. Lucy later on comes back, transformed by evil into a different being, a Vampire. Her innocence and love was…

In the playwright, “Macbeth” composed by William Shakespeare, momentous ideas of the tragedy of humanity, ambition leading to evil and the art of manipulation can be reflected in the use of characterisation, language and dramatic techniques. This will give attained in depth insight and understanding to the characters throughout the play. “Macbeth” written by Shakespeare depicts the central theme of tragedy that exemplifies the downfall of a man who is a tragic hero. ‘The Wheel of Fortune” or…