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Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep. By Jane Woo, Sylvia Jung, and Jinsoo Chung. What is REM?. Rapid Eye Movement Eyeballs twitch every half minute Starts after about an hour of falling asleep Not deep sleep Dreams happen in this stage Genitals are aroused during this stage

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Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep

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  1. Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep By Jane Woo, Sylvia Jung, and Jinsoo Chung.

  2. What is REM? • Rapid Eye Movement • Eyeballs twitch every half minute • Starts after about an hour of falling asleep • Not deep sleep • Dreams happen in this stage • Genitals are aroused during this stage • Your body blocks messages to the brain so you can’t move and you cannot wake up easily • Essentially paralyzed • Muscles are relaxed • “Paradoxical” sleep

  3. Cont’d • 25% of sleep is spent REM • 50% of baby sleep is in REM • It serves to preserve memory, integrate new experiences into your memory, and “to strip new memories of whatever emotional charge they initially carried”. • Dreaming and intelligence is correlated • Handicapped people do not dream as much • People who are depressed go into REM stage faster and stay in it longer; also, REM is more intense.

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