The last hour of spontaneous awakenings from uninterrupted sleep of 16 young adults was analyzed. In general, sleep was not fitful and broken but a continuation of the sleep process to the point of awakening. There were substantial individual differences in the time of awakening and the stage of sleep from which the sleeper emerged.
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