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rapid eye movement sleep
(redirected from REM dream)

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rapid eye movement sleep  (rpd)
See REM sleep.
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Noun1.rapid eye movement sleep - a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
sleep, slumber - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"


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The shorter sleeper will have a 5 minute REM dream period, a lot more delta sleep, and then another REM that lasts10 minutes, and that''s usually all of the REM sleep that short sleeper will get for the entire night.
Usually, increasing periods of REM sleep follow delta sleep, followed by returns to N1 or N2, during which the sleeper is most likely to remember the preceding REM dream.
However, REM dreams evoking the most anxiety and hostility were associated with rises in glucose metabolism in a section of the brain's frontal lobes that was comparably active while participants were awake and talking with an experimenter.
 
 
 
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