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Fiendish Thingy

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22. I think there is a formal/scientific measure of sleep

Reply to GenThePerservering (Reply #19)

Tue Mar 24, 2026, 05:51 PM

20 hrs ago

That requires the neck muscles to be relaxed/slack, and eyes rolled back, as well as respiration and heart rate and brain wave activity.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-6467-9_2

Clearly, Trump is impaired/sleep deprived/not full conscious during these “episodes”, but whether he is unconscious or asleep in every one of them is debatable.

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