sleep drunkenness

sleep drunkenness

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Sleep drunkenness (i.e., severe sleep inertia) is an extreme and prolonged difficulty fully awakening, associated with an uncontrollable desire to go back to sleep, which can be accompanied by automatic behavior (performing tasks without conscious self-control and not remembering what or if it was done), disorientation, confusion, irritability, and poor coordination.