The state of being deprived of sleep under experimental conditions, due to life events, or from a wide variety of pathophysiologic causes such as medication effect, chronic illness, psychiatric illness, or sleep disorder.
    

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A man using RIPA insecticide to kill bedbugs and get a good night's sleep. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.

A little boy wakes up a sleeping man with noisy banging of a drum; the boy sleeps and the man swats flies away from him with a fan. Colour process print, 1909.

The sleep instinct / Ray Meddis.

Dangerously sleepy : overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness / Alan Derickson.

The sleep revolution : transforming your life, one night at a time / Arianna Huffington.

Sleepfaring : a journey through the science of sleep / Jim Horne.

Make me ... stay awake.

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The sleep instinct / Ray Meddis.

Dangerously sleepy : overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness / Alan Derickson.

The sleep revolution : transforming your life, one night at a time / Arianna Huffington.

Sleepfaring : a journey through the science of sleep / Jim Horne.

Make me ... stay awake.