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    Sleep onset is when you transition from being awake to going to sleep, when that happens sometimes you’ll have rapid eye movement but other times you won’t. How sleep onset happens is when you’re still awake while laying down then eventually you’ll transition to barley going to sleep. the NREM sleep stages are Stage 1. You’re drowsy which means you tired, it eventually gets replaced even slower theta brain waves then you enter the first step of sleep which doesn’t last for long you eventually disengage

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    While awake, beta waves are active in the brain. The first stage is known as REM. This is where rapid eye movement occurs. As well, dreams typically occur here. As you begin to fall asleep these beta waves become less prevalent and theta waves start to develop. This occurs in the early stages of sleep. Furthermore, this stage is known as N1 which is a light sleep that usually occurs for about five minutes. During this time body temperature drops and shallow, irregular breathing occurs. The next

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    succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep”(citation 1). Sometimes we dream of things that happened to us everyday. Dreams normally occur when our eye are rapidly showing eye movement. It is called REM sleep. Our Dreams have different stages of activity, dreams are important to a human being and there is no evidence that shows dreams have meaning. Dreams have different stages it is called REM sleep. According to

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    Sleep is vital to give the cerebral cortex (the brain's "thinking" part) a rest. When we’re in a deep sleep, rapid eye movement (REM) occurs when your eyes move rapidly up for 30 minutes at a time, it continues every 90 minutes. Most of our dreaming happens during REM and our eyes moving forcefully, our bodies are very relaxed and that’s what make us continue to sleep. “One of the most recent and compelling explanations for why we sleep is based on findings that sleep is correlated to changes in

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    emotions, thoughts, images, and sensations that happen while sleeping. They cannot be controlled, or so many people believe, so not anything that happens in your dreams are in people’s control. Scientists discovered that dreaming happens in rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep. Another thing about dreams is that

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    physiological, biological, or psychological functions but that have not to be answered. But that have not stopped many scientists from coming up with speculations. But we do know that our dream cycle is usual most lavish and finest during the rapid eye movement of sleep also known as the REM stage of sleeping. Dream are still to be considered to be a mystery because they have a litter meaning to them and it hard to recall what happened in the dream. Except the fact that many scientists in the scientific

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    neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters determines whether we are awake or whether we are asleep, sort of like a switch (American Sleep Association). In dreams, “there are actually multiple sleep stages”(Withings). These sleep stages are all called neurotic rapid eye movement, or NREM. In fact, dreams do not even occur until the fourth and final NREM stage. The first stage is the lightest stage of sleep. This stage makes it effortless to fall in and out of slumber. Stage one is also the shortest in duration in comparison

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    Dreams, something that most of us see in our daily basis. It is defined as " a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep." But what is the real meaning of “a dream”? There are three main explanations of dreaming: unconscious wish-fulfillment theory, dreams for survival theory, and activation-synthesis theory. In 1990 Sigmund Freud proposed the unconscious wish-fulfillment theory he viewed dream as " unconscious wishes

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    Close your eyes for a minute and imagine waking up in a nightmare, where you vision a horrific dark presence in your room and you’re unable to scream for help or even move. This helpless “nightmare” can also be known as Sleep Paralysis. A condition which people experience a terrifying paralyzing feeling throughout their body in between the state of rest and awakening; often seeing troubled things. Since when I was young I would have some experiences with sleep paralysis. Due to the unusual experiences

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    Dreams are generally linked with rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep, which is a phase that happens near the end of a sleep cycle. REM sleep is characterized by the random movement of the eyes and heightened body and brain activity. One study proposed that there is a definitive link between dreams and emotions, where the reduction of REM sleep causes a reduction

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