wake cycle
Alertness and slumber
Wake cycle refers to the period of wakefulness in a person's daily rhythm, typically contrasted with the sleep cycle.
The term appears most often in sleep-wake cycle, describing the alternating pattern of sleeping and waking governed by circadian rhythms: Jet lag disrupts your normal sleep-wake cycle.
Shift workers and new parents often struggle to maintain a regular wake cycle.
- sleepRecurring unconscious repose
- circadianDaily biological cycle
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- body clockInternal time-keeping system
- internal clockBody's innate timing mechanism
melatonin · insomnia · REM · drowsy · power nap · alert · sunrise · bedtime · restless · sleep debt · biological · clock · nap · fatigue · dreaming · nocturnal · night owl · snooze
- natural cyclescircadian rhythm, seasons, tides, moon phases, circadian rhythms
- biorhythmscircadian rhythm, circadian rhythms, circadian clock, biological clocks, biological clock
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
wake cyclesleep cycle
Repeating phases of rest
REM cycle · sleep phase · deep sleep · hibernation · coma
wake, cycle, waking, waken, awake, awaken, wakeful, wakefulness, awoke