Sentences with phrase «active sleep phase»

As you get to know your baby's sleep patterns, you may find that you can catch him as he cycles into an active sleep phase and gently ease him back to sleep by lightly patting him on his back or with a quiet shushing noise before he fully wakes up.

This is a complex neurological process that is a reflection of your baby's developmental stages, not what you have «taught» your baby: for the first four months, babies enter sleep from an active sleep phase and younger babies also have a startle reflex that can wake them randomly, so they will usually need help to calm and settle into a deeper sleep at first.

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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.

Like an EEG machine, they could easily distinguish between two phases of sleep in napping newborns: «active» sleep, in which the brain displays continuous electrical activity; and «quiet» sleep, in which brain activity waxes and wanes.

In the past, people had known that individual neurons go through phases of being more or less active, but with this probe they saw for the first time that all the neurons in a given column cycled together between firing very rapidly then firing at a much slower rate, similar to coordinated cycles in sleep.