Sentences with phrase «when rapid eye movements»

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Many studies have linked motivation levels with REM sleep (which stands for rapid eye movement and is the part of sleep when you dream).

Then I watch the monitor to see when baby is in that REM (rapid eye movement) part of sleep.

When your baby naps, watch for signs of wakefulness, such as sucking on fingers or fist, rapid eye movement and little sounds.

They tend to happen later at night, during the second half of sleep during REM (rapid eye movement), when we are dreaming.

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.

This stands for rapid eye movement, and it's during this type of sleep when children and adults have dreams.

Typically, the rapid eye movement (REM) stage is when we are dreaming, but night terrors do not actually occur during this stage as they are not a dream but a sudden reaction of fear from one transitory stage of sleep to another.

The largest effect was on the number of times the mice went in and out of a sleep phase called paradoxical sleep, which resembles REM (rapid eye movement) sleep in humans, when dreams occur and memories are strengthened.

Most dreams occur during the stage of sleep when slumberers start making rapid eye movements, called REM sleep.

But Duntley says the cycling resembles the rapid eye movement sleep of birds and mammals, when humans dream.

Vision is an extremely dynamic process — Even when we look at a fixed image, our eyes are making rapid movements, called «saccades» to explore the image that is sent to our brain.

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.

«The research findings suggest that rapid eye movements represent the moment the brain encounters a new image in a dream, similar to the brain activity exhibited when one encounters visual images while awake,» Prof. Fried said.

«The electrical brain activity during rapid eye movements in sleep were highly similar to those occurring when people were presented with new images,» said Dr. Nir.

Rek says that sleeping for longer might increase the amount of rapid eye movement sleep late at night — the time when nightmares most commonly occur.

The rapid eye movements we make when we shift our attention from one object to another, known as saccades, are essential to navigating, understanding, and interacting with the world around us.

In fact, it goes back and forth between two phases: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is when dreams typically happen, and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, which is when the body bolsters your immune system, builds muscle and bone, and mends and regenerates tissues.

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

Patrick Keesey shows ink drawings in an exhibition at the Marfa Country Clinic entitled Saccade, meaning a rapid intermittent eye movement which occurs when the eyes fix on one point after another in the visual field.

Both eerie and haunting, this photography series REM, by Florian Mueller, explores our state of mind when experiencing rapid eye movement sleep.