Sandman vs. Wakefulness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sandman and Wakefulness
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Sandman
The Sandman is a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.
Wakefulness
Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world. Being awake is the opposite of the state of being asleep in which most external inputs to the brain are excluded from neural processing.
Sandman
A character in fairy tales and folklore who makes children go to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes.
Wakefulness
Not sleeping or not able to sleep.
Sandman
(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
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Wakefulness
Without sleep; sleepless.
Sandman
Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death. en
Wakefulness
Watchful; alert.
Sandman
(obsolete) A seller of sand.
Wakefulness
The state of being wakeful.
Sandman
A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Wakefulness
A periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world
Sandman
An elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
Wakefulness
A temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
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