REM sleep?

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I know that REM stands for rapid eye movement and that REM sleep is a deep, dream-filled sleep. But what else? When does REM sleep begin? What happens to your mind/body during this sleep cycle? What happens if it is interrupted?
Every night you have REM sleep. This is just saying that you are dreaming wildy. Sometimes you just can't remember what you dreamt the night before.  (+ info)

rem sleep??

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my baby is a week and a half old. sometimes when he sleeps he will breathe very fast and heavy. i have heard of rem sleep and think this is what he is doing because sometimes he will also make faces and roll his eyes around. anyone else ever saw their baby do this or breathe rapidly in sleep?
i hope you understand exactly what REM sleep is. it is Rapid Eye Movement. which is the deep stages of sleep at which you are dreaming. This is also the stage where you talk and walk in your sleep as well as move around. As the heart is beating faster generally they are having a dream where they are doing somethign that will increase the heart rate. it is definately very common. its really funny when puppies or dogs are sleeping as well as they will some times run in their sleep as well.  (+ info)

What is REM Behavior Disorder?

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REM behaviour disorder is where the sleep paralysis function doesn't work.

It can lead to you acting our your dreams physically. If it is just a few twitches it isn't too bad, but it can mean physically enacting the whole dream. People who have killed their partners during sleep say they suffer from this disorder.

It is not what the other answerer said where you don't dream, it is where the paralysis to keep you safe whilst sleeping doesn't work.

I enclose a link below where you can learn more about the condition  (+ info)

REM Sleep??

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Ok so I am going to be talking about this at work tomorrow and I was thinking about coming up with a game of some kind. Can someone who is creative give me at least a starting point for this idea. Or come up with a hand out of some kind. Help!
The presenting complaint is violent dream-enacting behaviors during REM sleep, often causing self-injury or injury to the bed partner. The dream-enacting behaviors are usually nondirected and may include punching, kicking, leaping, or running from bed while still in REM sleep.
The patient may be wakened or may wake spontaneously during the attack and recall vividly the dream that corresponds to the physical action.
In some cases, an extended prodrome of prominent limb and body movements occurs before the development of RBD  (+ info)

Do sleep aids replenish your body the way REM sleep does, because i learned they make you skip REM?

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In school, i learned that sleep aids made you skip REM sleep, so it would have been better to go with alternative less medicated methods to sleep. I've heard people though say that, on sleep aids they wake up replenished just the same as if they had their REM sleep. So was the information outdate, or possibly something overlooked?
It depends on the sleep aid. I prefer Valerian root pills. They are a natural supplement, and they put me into a deep deep REM. I also don't wake up all groggy, but it is harder to pull me out of sleep. I can't wake up to an alarm. They give you extremely vivid dreams they are really neat.  (+ info)

Is it possible to dream out of REM sleep?

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I have learnt that REM sleep is the time when most people have dreams. However, I get dreams while taking short naps of 15 min to 30 min. I often get dreams even with 15 min sleep! Does that make me abnormal or am I just really good at sleeping?
Lol, good question. I always joked that when stressed and sleep deprived, I am the most efficient sleeper ever! I will lie down for a nap and the second my head hits the pillow I am having vivid dreams, which continue for about 30 minutes and then I wake up refreshed, almost out of breath, thinking "wow, that was intense"!

The article in the link below talks about polyphasic sleeping. The idea behind it is that if you are sleep deprived enough, after a while you can train your body to go directly into REM sleep and skip the first phases of the sleep cycle. This allows a person to sleep only in naps throughout the day totally no more than 3-4 hours of sleep per night.

Sooo in short, no you can't dream out of REM sleep, but it certainly sounds like it's possible to train yourself to nap exclusively in REM sleep... you just have to be really sleep deprived.  (+ info)

What is the sleeping disorder where the person doesn't need sleep?

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i don't know if this is an actual disorder but i thought i heard about it some where. the person who has the disorder does not need sleep. i know that is extremely rare, but that's it.
Insomnia is when you can't sleep for what ever reason....there are a few reason's for that.

If you have mental health issues then you can experience a time called -Mania - in which you will feel you don't need sleep and can literally go days without it. It's a part of the illness that causes a 'high' almost like wayyyyyyyyy to much caffeine in the body and it makes you want to - go go go go - and not stop for days on end and then when you crash from it you crash hard.....

So there isn't necessarily a 'disorder' but there is a Mania that can cause this to happen for many people who have a mental illness - Bipolar Disorder especially.

-- hope this helps --  (+ info)

I have sleep apnea,bi polar,personality disorder just put in a appeal with si am I wasting my time?

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I just received my 1st denial letter from ssi. Do you think I have a chance with sleep apnea,bi polar, personality disorder, panic attacks and I receive lots of meds for these conditions.
Can"t say if your wasting your time or not, however I do know that SSI ALWAYS denies you the first time around. Its procedural. My Father In Law suffered a massive stroke and through the process I found out that they always do that.  (+ info)

How can I decrease my amount of REM sleep?

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My psychiatrist suspects that I spend too much time in the REM stage of sleep. He mentioned a sleep study perhaps in the future, but is there anything I can do NOW to decrease the amount of time I spend in REM sleep?
Spending too much time in REM sleep is strongly indicative of Narcolepsy. The only way to suppress REM sleep is with a specialty drug called Xyrem which causes the body to correctly go through the sleep cycle rather than always be in REM sleep. So, right now, no there is nothing you can do but to wait until after the sleep study (and I'm assuming a multiple sleep-latency test which is a nap study) until you get the results so the doctor can properly treat you.

Best of luck to you!  (+ info)

What does it mean when you can get little to no rem sleep?

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I had a sleep study done and the tech said that I was able to get into rem sleep but I would come out of it quickly. And that I did not get into rem sleep much. What does this mean?
You are not getting enough of the deep sleep you need. I have this problem right now due to having to get up to put wood in the fireplace and take the puppy out. Not fun. Try valarian root, melatonin, chamomile tea before bed and also try puting on something soothing to sleep, like a cd of ocean waves, it really helps.  (+ info)

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