Articles for tag: REM, REM Sleep

Does Everybody Dream?

While most of us can recall dreams at least occasionally, there is a sizeable minority of people who claim never to dream, and who understandably have some difficulty understanding what everybody else is talking about. Laboratory experiments, comparing dreamers with non-dreamers, have shown that mere is little difference between these groups in respect of EEG/EOG ...

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Sleep Deprivation, Disorders, and Drugs

Sleep is an important part of people’s lives. When people don’t get enough of it, they cannot function as they normally would. Whether sleep deprivation results from a person’s own behaviors or a sleep disorder, a person can sometimes find aid in drugs that help him or her to finally get some peaceful rest. Personally, ...

Sleep Cycles Explained

Over a lifetime a person spends about 25 years of there life sleeping. That seems like allot doesn’t it? For example, lets say a person was 50 years old and they slept an average of 8 hours per day. That would mean they slept 146,000 hours. That would be about 6,083 days and about 17 ...

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The Human Sleep Cycle: An Explanation of Sleep

Sleep Sleeping is something that everyone on the planet needs. While we sleep at varying times of the day and for varying lengths of time, it is still something that everyone must do to remain healthy both physically and mentally. During the course of a night a person goes through five different stages of sleep, ...

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Can Too Much Dreaming Cause Depression?

Have you ever woken up in the morning still feeling sleepy and just wanted to pull the covers up over your head-despite getting plenty of sleep? While you may have thought you felt unmotivated to start the day because you did not get enough dream-filled REM sleep to work out your problems, chances are the ...