Sublime

We may experience occasional difficulty sleeping.

languid

This efficacy of the insula-cingulate network varies from person to person, in some functioning like a well-oiled switch, and in others like a rusty old gate. But switch it does, and if it is called upon to switch too much or too often, we feel tired and a bit dizzy, as though we were see-sawing too rapidly.

The men’s expressions were somehow at once stuporous and anxious, enervated and keyed up—not so much fighting the urge to fidget as appearing to have long ago surrendered whatever hope or expectation causes one to fidget.

You can’t expect your body to provide you with regular rhythms such as consistent sleep when you aren’t providing it with balanced rhythms to work on and are running at a white hot level of arousal.

soft languor

hurrying off to some other crucial location.

noise, defined as unpleasant auditory stimulation.

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