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People have dreamt of lifetimes in mere seconds of REM sleep.

And when REM activity is suppressed, people may sleep longer but don't feel fully rested.

REM sleep is the deepest sleep a person can have, and a newborn should not be disturbed from it.

During the night, people fall in and out of REM and non-REM sleep; REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is lighter and easier to disrupt; during this phase of sleep the mind is still active and this is when dreams and nightmares take place.

Nunn and Samson estimated that people now spend an average of 1.56 hours of snooze time in REM, about as much as the models predict should be spent in that sleep phase.

When people are woken from deep sleep, they typically recall experiencing nothing or, at best, only some vague bodily feeling; this experience contrasts with the highly emotional narratives our brains weave during rapid - eye - movement (REM) sleep.

If you took 100 people and did a sleep study, we can look at the data and know, by looking at the time they entered REM, who's going to become depressed in the next year and who isn't.»

When people are woken from REM sleep, they usually report vivid dreams.

More evidence comes from people with REM sleep behavior disorder, who lack the muscle paralysis, known as atonia, typical of REM sleep.

But REM sleep's influence on memory has been hard to study, in part because scientists often resorted to waking people or animals up — a stressful experience that might influence memory in different ways.

People who get less rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may have a greater risk of developing dementia, according to a new study published in the August 23, 2017, online issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Normal people remain wakeful during the day, then pass through three stages at night: wakefulness, non-rem sleep, and rem sleep — in that order.

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.

They range from REM sleep behavior disorder — a dangerous condition in which people physically act out their dreams — to fatal familial insomnia, a rare neurodegenerative disease in which patients die from lack of sleep.

People with apnea do have fewer nightmares, which really isn't that surprising because apnea disrupts sleep, leading to less REM sleep, which is when dreams usually happen, including nightmares.

Dreams Can Come Alive When most people enter the dream - filled REM stage of sleep, their brain mercifully paralyzes most muscles.

And because they can slide rapidly into REM at any time, people with narcolepsy are prone to hallucinations — or what sleep researchers refer to as hypnagogic imagery — when falling asleep.

«People used to think that this region of the medulla was only involved in the paralysis of skeletal muscles during REM sleep,» said lead author Yang Dan, a UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

In recent sleep lab studies of 600 people age 30 or older, Mignot was surprised to find that 1 percent — or 20 times as many as with classic narcolepsy — suffered from inordinate sleepiness, had a high frequency of the autoimmune marker linked to narcolepsy, and went very rapidly into REM when they napped.

When these cells become injured or diseased, people do not experience the muscle paralysis associated with REM sleep, which can lead to REM sleep behavior disorder — a serious condition in which the afflicted violently act out their dreams.

Researchers found that people who experienced lesser amounts of REM sleep are more at risk of developing dementia in the long run.

People who lack REM sleep are likely to develop some form of dementia.

Along with hallucinations, REM sleep behavior disorder is one of the early indicators suggesting that a person has LBD and not Alzheimer's disease, she says.

One major symptom is REM sleep behavior disorder, in which people physically act out their dreams, thrash, kick or hit, potentially injuring themselves and others.

REM sleep behavior disorder can start even a decade before a person presents with cognitive symptoms, Taylor says.

Another study in 2014 found that taking CBD led to a significant reduction in REM sleep behavior disorder events in people suffering from Parkinson's disease (7).

These people do not go into the deep enough REM sleep that induces paralysis.

For a person with narcolepsy, aspects of REM sleep overlap with being awake.

Numerous studies have shown that people who read on blue light - emitting devices took longer to fall asleep, reduced REM, and had heightened vigilance before going to sleep.

Another reason people get lower - quality sleep following alcohol is that it blocks REM sleep, which is often considered the most restorative type of sleep.

REM or rapid eye movement is the stage of sleep when people usually dream.

Most people have an average sleep cycle of 90 minutes where they go from light sleep to deep sleep and eventually REM sleep before coming back up through the phases to light sleep again.