What is REM sleep?!
Question: I saw a commercial for something and it said "REM sleep" but I didn't catch the rest of it. What exactly is it?
Answers: I saw a commercial for something and it said "REM sleep" but I didn't catch the rest of it. What exactly is it?
This is Rapid Eye movement sleep and indicates that a person is dreaming. It is very important to our health and somehow sorts our brains muddled thinking while we sleep. That is probably why our dreams seem so weird sometimes. There seems to be a lot of symbology in dreams and we can sometimes rightly or wrongly attach meanings to what we are dreaming. It may alert us to problems we are not dealing with.
REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement. It's just one of the deepest stages in sleep.
REM sleep is when you are dreaming.
REM stands for rapid eye movement that we all do while dreaming.
rapid eye movement
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep is classified into two categories: tonic and phasic.[1] It was discovered by Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky in the early 1950s. Their seminal article was published September 4, 1953.[2] Criteria for REM sleep include not only rapid eye movements, but also low muscle tone and a rapid, low voltage EEG -- these features are easily discernible in a polysomnogram, the sleep study typically done for patients with suspected sleep disorders.