Don't let the "chick flick' idea scare you away from this movie. While You Were Sleeping is cute, outrageously funny, heartwarming and a must see for all audiences. .
While You Were Sleeping starts with a lonely woman, Lucy, (Sandra Bullock) hard at work in a tollbooth, fantasying about marrying the handsome young men passing through her tollbooth. By chance, one of the men is mugged and knocked unconscious on the train tracks. She saves him, and the confusion starts. With a lot of twist and turns the family come to believe that Lucy and their unconscious son are engaged. They welcome the family starved woman, with open arms. Lucy can not resist their charm and is sucked into the vortex of this wild and crazy family. She then starts to fall in love with her comatose fiancé's brother and vice versa. The story continues on a spiral of confusion, from the noisy, old neighbor to the crazy, near death's-door grandmother. When the fiancé wakes up from the coma, one might think that things will straighten out, but that doesn't happen. While You Were Sleeping just keeps you laughing until the end.
The plot, with its twist and turns is interesting, funny and has the audience guessing until the closing credits. When Peter wakes up from his coma, the situation becomes more ironic as he is led to believe he has amnesia and doesn't remember the girl he is engaged to. The plot continues to entertain us by having Peter propose to Lucy. Who will Lucy chose? The rich fantasy, or the brother she is really in love with. This is just one of the plot's suspense that holds the audience at the edge of their seats.
The characters in this movie are so believable you will feel they are your best friends by the end. Lucy has lost her dad; he was her only family. She has friends, but around the holidays (the setting of this movie) is when you want to be part of a family the most. The scene when she is decorating a Christmas tree, with only her cat for company, helps you understand how someone could be pulled into a loving family, even under false pretenses.
Suddenly your brain waves are almost the same as if you were awake. ... Studies proved that adult dogs usually past after 13 days while puppies past after 6 days with no sleep. While human experiments are unethical, volunteering for a study is not. ... There were also periods of irrationality. ... If you stay in bed awake, you are subtracting many valuable minutes of deep, restful sleep. ...
What would happen if we do not sleep? ... What makes me interesting is to know that the half brain of the dolphins is sleeping or in rest mode, but the other half keeps the dolphins swimming while they are sleeping. ... Usually, when you were at age 14, playing piano is kind of hard because you should start from zero like the 5 years old kid. So, I tried to play piano every single day and then when I was going to wrap up my piano skills at the end of the day, my fingers were no longer as smoothly as I play at the beginning of the day. ... While you are stressed, what I could say is just sleep...
Can have exaggerated emotional responses and experiences Self-Control NWC: Higher levels of self-control as you are able to react to the internal and external stimuli. ... Such as physical growth, tissue repair and recover from the effects of fatigue If you don't have NREM sleep you may feel weak, tired and could be in pain in the morning Restorative Functions of REM It is believed to restore the brain and may have a role in higher order mental functions such as learning. REM sleep is more abundant in the development of infancy than in childhood Survival Theory It is proposed that sl...
You have no control over this, and you have no control over how much sleep you will get that night, therefore the torturing cycle will continue. ... While most of us think that any type of sleep is acceptable, we assume that a few hours of resting is the equivalent to sleep. ... Rest is not as beneficial for you as sleep. ... The subjects were woken up every 15 minutes, or one phase of sleep was taken away. ... Ninety-nine female high school students in Sao Paolo, Brazil were part of an experiment to see how much sleep students were getting. ...
From then, in the 1930's to the 1970's experiments were done on cats and dogs. Normal patterns of sleep were first discovered in 1935. ... When you are young, you sleep from anywhere to 3 hours of sleep to 10 hours of sleep. ... These are just a few factors that affect sleep as you become older. ... You see, there are different sleep patterns, some more abrupt, while others more smooth and undisturbed. ...
REM sleep is the only time in the sleep process in which we dream. ... This theory is explaining that a young child's dreams is more like a slide show, while an adults dream is more like a story. ... Research has shown when an unsolved problem is thought about right before bed, it may lead to a solution while dreaming. ... The student's problems were solved through their own dreams, because they were personally relevant to themselves. ... Some people claim that they have never dreamed before, but in reality everyone dreams every night, you just do not always remember it (Myers, 2...
REM sleep is the only time in the sleep process in which we dream. ... This theory is explaining that a young child's dreams is more like a slide show, while an adults dream is more like a story. ... Research has shown when an unsolved problem is thought about right before bed, it may lead to a solution while dreaming. ... The student's problems were solved through their own dreams, because they were personally relevant to themselves. ... Some people claim that they have never dreamed before, but in reality everyone dreams every night, you just do not always remember it (Myers, 2...
Whether it may be work pressure, family problems, or health worries, everyone can relate to the experience of lying awake in bed and thinking over their problems, while desperately wanted to get some sleep ("Sleep Deprivation: Causes and Consequences" 1). ... Christian Gillin, MD, "Sleep deprivation is bad for your brain when you are trying to do high level [thinking] tasks. ... Basically the essential information regarding the activity of the brain and the effects on it during sleep deprivation can be simply summarized into three main ideas: In a sleep-deprived individual, while one part of t...
You are your memory. ... You cannot simply "improve your memory", you can improve your memory skills in particular areas. ... Personal memory contains information about you. ... She said, You dont recognize me, do you? ... While this sounds terribly obvious, there is actually a clinical condition (the Capgras delusion) whereby a person, while recognizing the people around them, believes they have been replaced by doubles (imposters, robots, aliens). ...
