fitful

Sleep is fitful, mornings even worse.

In her memoir, Zappa writes about trying to leverage “Valley Girl’s” success with a fitful acting career that, in retrospect, kept her away from higher education or pursuing a mainstream “civilian” career.

Sometime during my fitful sleep, I was roused by the shadow of someone standing over me.

Still—once I’d made up my mind to go to Aunt Fannie, I may have drifted into a fitful sleep.

This one has a hose attached to a motor that slowly lowers the oxygen level to mimic, as faithfully as possible, the agonies of fitful sleep at extreme altitude: headaches, dry mouth, cerebral malaise.