Sentences with phrase «rem dream state»

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Babies while asleep are in a state of dream sleep (REM).

Each sleep cycle is a sequence of sleep stages, beginning with relatively brief, light stages of sleep, progressing through stages of deep sleep, and ending with REM (rapid - eye movement) sleep, the sleep state associated with dreams.

Lucid dreaming represents a brain state between REM sleep and being awake.

The group used a combination of monitoring methods collectively known as polysomnography to check whether the participants were in the rapid eye movement (REM) state of sleep, in which we tend to have most of our dreams.

Thus, scientists have had to revise the belief that the REM state is an external manifestation of the subjective dream state.

After the volunteers had plunged into REM sleep, a state in which people are unable to move and the most vividly recalled dreams occur, researchers applied electrical current to their skulls near the forehead and temples.

We experience our most vivid dreams during REM sleep, a paradoxical state characterized by awake - like brain activity.

REM sleep, characterized by rapid eye movements, is the dream state in mammals accompanied by activation of the cortex and total paralysis of the skeletal muscles, presumably so that we don't act out the dreams flashing through our mind.

For example, I have been involved in studies comparing brain activation in REM sleep with that in lucid - dreaming states, in which we retain much executive brain function.

There is also a distinction between sleep states: REM (dreaming) sleep is associated with theta; slow - wave sleep is associated with LIA.

Alcohol blocks REM sleep which is our dream state as well as when our memories get solidified from short to long - term.

Dogs do have the ability to look up, most can see a spectrum of colors and many dogs dream deep enough that they enter a REM state of trance, which is said to have the most vivid dreaming.