Is it physically possible to fall asleep with your eyes open?
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yes it is physically possible although part of it is mental. I have been known to have done this on more than one occasion-but then again my eyes have been known to change colors also..believe it or not...it has happened. I think it all has to do with your chemical makeup and the levels of certain hormones or chemicals' like;at the right place ,@ the right time....ya know... but as far as the sleeping thing' YES it is possible- I mean just look at it from a sleepwalkers standpoint and maybe that will help you accept the reality of it a little bit better! Hope this helped!!
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Sleepwalkers engage in their activities with their eyes open so they can navigate their surroundings, not with their eyes closed and their arms outstretched as parodied in cartoons and Hollywood productions. The victims' eyes may have a glazed or empty appearance and if questioned, the subject will be slow to answer or unresponsive.\nWhile sleepwalking itself does not inherently pose a health concern, accidents may happen as the subject is performing actions without the control of conscious mind.
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yes- you sure can\nyou can even let wind, cough, and burp during sleep
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Nope, but a handy trick is to think about what you want to dream about right before your fall asleep. If you are focusing on not dreaming about a certain thing, it will be on your mind and you will more than likely dream about it....
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if you have a serious case of sleepwalking, yes, you can sleepwalk after taking sleeping pills.\n\nSleepwalking (also called noctambulism or somnambulism), under the larger category of parasomnias, is a sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state.
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No, unless you fall from a considerable height (such as out of an open 12th story window) or something like that in your sleep.
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Yes we can feel when we are being touched in our sleep, just like a man can.
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Yes. Psychologists have done experiments where they tape someone's eyes open. They flash a light every two seconds and the person has to press a button every time the light flashes. Eventually the person misses a flash. The psychologists ask him why he didn't press the button, he said because it didn't flash. It did flash, he had just fallen asleep.
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take a warm bath, drink milk, read a book and relax. next thing you know, your lids are drooping and you're ready to doze.\n\nsweet dreams! :)
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Thats what is called trance in meditation. But that doesnt happen when people sleep. It is a stage between sleep and awake where the body and mind are both working but independently.
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they can if your mouth is open when you sleep!
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Yes they can.\nThey dream of sounds and feelings and smells they grew up with, but no one's for sure if they can see anything. Some experts just believe that all they see is nothing since they don't know what things look like.\n\nMy mom works with sleep research and she has told me that blind people during sleep have the same brain stimuli that regular people have when they are dreaming.
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Yes conceivably but your body would decide to breathe in spite of your wishes once if you are unconscious. The only thing that would stop that was if something was blocking your air passages.
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Yes. deep sleep ! LOL
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Don't sleep with your window open.  You may have allergies.
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maybe you are having an OBE (out of body experiance) You arent fully asleep when this happens.
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To answer this question you need to understand the sleeping stages.\nMany people think of their sleeping bodies as if they were cars parked for the night--motionless, engines off, headlights dimmed. But sleep is an amazingly complex state of being. As we sleep, muscles tense and relax. Pulse, temperature and blood pressure rise and fall. Chemicals crucial for well-being course through the blood stream. The brain, like a Hollywood director, conjures up fantastic stories, complete with a plot, characters and action. \n\nYou don't simply "fall" asleep. You descend slowly through different levels. As you close your eyes and drift off, you enter the first stage of what is called quiet sleep. Your brain produces irregular, rapid waves, and muscle tension decreases. You breathe smoothly, and mundane thoughts float through your mind. If roused, you might jerk awake quickly and deny that you'd slept at all. \n\nIn stage 2 of quiet sleep, your brain waves become larger, punctuated by occasional sudden bursts of electrical activity. You've definitely crossed the border between wakefulness and sleep. If someone lifted your eyelids gently, you wouldn't waken; your eyes no longer respond to stimuli. \n\nAs you descend into stage 3, your brain waves become slower and bigger. In this state of deep slumber, your bodily functions slow down even more. Finally stepping into stage 4, you reach deepest sleep, the most profound state of unconsciousness. On an EEG (electroencephalogram), your brain waves would appear extremely large and slow. You are so "dead to the world" that a thunderstorm might not wake you. \n\nThis step-by-step journey into oblivion usually takes more than an hour. Then you begin to climb upward, moving rapidly through the same sleep stages as before, not all the way to full wakefulness but in active sleep. Because the pupils dart back and forth, this stage is called Rapid Eye Movement or REM sleep. (The four stages of quiet sleep are often referred to as non-REM or NREM sleep.) \n\nDuring REM, your brain waves resemble those of waking rather than of quiet sleep. The large muscles of your torso, arms and legs are paralyzed, although your fingers and toes may twitch. You breathe quickly and slowly, the flow of blood through your brain accelerates. REM sleep is the time of vivid dreaming, and if wakened, you'd probably recall a fragment of a fantasy. \n\nAfter about ten minutes in REM sleep, you descend the sleep staircase again. The entire cycle of REM and NREM stages takes roughly 90 minutes. Early in the night, the periods spent in the deepest stages of quiet sleep are longer. In the second half of the night, REM sleep predominates. By morning, you go around the sleep circuit four or five times. \n\nThis pattern changes gradually throughout life. From infancy to adulthood, REM periods dwindle to less than a quarter of a night's sleep. By their thirties, men spend less time in the very deep stages of NREM sleep. Women begin to sleep less deeply in their fifties. By age 65, both sexes spend half as much time in deep sleep as they did when they were 25. The lighter sleep stages increase later in life, and REM shrinks to about a fifth of total sleep time.