While you are sleeping your body cycles through two phases of sleep—rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep. During REM sleep, you dream, your heart rate increases, and you even process ...

“There are two types of sleep: Non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) sleep and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep,” Dr Hare explains. “NREM sleep is divided into stages 1, 2 and 3.” REM sleep is when ...

When you’re in a period of REM sleep, your eyes will rapidly move from side to side and that’s where the name REM (short for ...

Scientists have long noted eerie parallels between psychedelic trips and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the stage during which you dream. Some even suggest psychedelics could induce a “waking ...

On their website, The Sleep Foundation states: “REM is involved in a host of important functions, from brain development to ...

Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s ...

REM sleep is so named because this is where we have Rapid Eye Movement. Your body is temporarily paralyzed, except for the eyes and your breathing muscles. This is the stage best known for ...