First, I hardly ever remember my dreams. But, lately, I’ve been falling asleep and going into REM sleep almost as soon as I fall asleep. My sleep quality has become awful, I wake up feeling nauseated and exhausted. Is it okay that I feel like I’m in REM sleep more than normal? Are there any reasons that my REM sleep pattern has changed? (My dreams are often nightmares, now, and I haven’t had nightmares since I was approximately five, I’m currently eighteen).

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Last summer I had a month and a half of waking up at 4 am, only to fall asleep ten to fifteen minutes before my alarm went off…It eventually stopped and I was able to regain my normal sleeping patterns…
It felt like to me, that I would go to sleep (anytime between 8-10) and finally hit my REM sleep, have a crazy dream (always different, not very memorable or particular) and then I would be kicked out of my REM pattern…unable to go back to sleep…
For some reason, at four o’clock I would wake up, and be unable to regain my deep sleep…

Only now, its happening again…I am under stress, but not an unbearable amount..I do suffer from depression…could that be whats causing it?
I’m not sure, but its tiring…

Any ideas?

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I’m 16, and i get between 7hopurs and 30 munites to 7hours 59 munites of sleep a night. When my family gets up they make so much noise i her them and I have to get up to start the day, although I totally could go back to sleep

ive read and seen on tv multiple times that its not how much sleep you get but what quality you get- whenever i wake up i remember my dreams, wich means i am in REM sleep, the deepest most relaxful kind.
If its the cat that wakes me up, not my family and i do go back to sleep, (lets say thats 6 am) then my family starts thumping and walking arround at 6:06, i will wake up from another rem sleep! this means i go through all 5 stages up to rem sl;eep very quickly..

i know that 8hours _ makes you feel better, produces better weightloss horomones or whatever, amkes your mind or whatever better, amkes you les irratable whatever,. but am i getting enough? And even if time is the way it is, is my sleep more restful, and i only need like 6 hours? I believe that most of the sleep im in is rem sleep… how much do i really need?
Thanks :]

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People who are depressed tend to have more REM sleep than slow-wave sleep; as a result, they wake up feeling less refreshed than a person with a normal sleeping pattern.

I think it makes sense that if you were to sleep more, you’d likewise experience more REM sleep. It would then follow that since you’re caught up on your REM sleep, you’d be able to return to a normal sleeping pattern (in both cases of sleep deprivation AND depression). Am I way off on this assumption?

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Do medications that increase remembering dreams as well as the vividness of them possibly increase our time of being in REM sleep? It is documented most vivid dreams occur in REM sleep, and I always have vivid dreams even if im asleep for only an hour. Everynight I realize how vivid they are and how real they seem, I take zoloft during the day, diphenhydramine 50 mg and 3 mg meletonin + thianine at night. I know 3 mg of meletonin is ALOT but it gives me amazing vivid dreams. Is this increasing my REM sleep at all or just causing vivid dreams in the earlier stages of my sleep?
I know REM sleep isin’t supposed to occur for at least a few hours, and it just confuses me why I have vivid dreams after only sometimes 10 minutes of sleeping.
so wouldnt it cause a better nights sleep if it came on quicker? we get the most rest out of REM sleep right?

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is "long REM sleep latency" a symptom of narcolepsy?

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what are good amounts of sleep to get without getting into a deep REM {?} sleep and waking up tired.

i heard for a nap, 20 minutes will do the trick.

but at night…how many hours?

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1. the process of recieving,translating and transmitting messages from the outside world to the brain is
a) perception
b)selective attention
c) sensation
d)cognition

2.internally generated cycles lasting about 24 hours a day that regulate sleep and wake cycles,as well as hormone secrection, are called
a)sleep disorder
b)circadian rhythms
c)REM periods
d)astral projections

3. the semi-awkeful period that precedes light sleep is called
a) the hypnagogic state
b) Myoclonia
c) REM sleep
d) the transcendental state

4.the basic untis of thinking are called
a) thoughts
b)behaviors
c)neurons
d)concepts

5) the intellectual processes by which information is obtained,transformed,stored,retrieved,and used is called
a) activation
b)motivation
c)cognition
d)emotion

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the answer is ofcourse yes, but how much is my question.

i get around 4 to 5 hours of sleep everynight. and sometimes even the 4 to5 hours isnt of DEEP rem sleep but just sleep.

so my question is more towards the brain. can not getting a full 8 hours speed up diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or other brain problems?

soon i will change this habbit, though. (soon as i get a job) lol.

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What possibly happens to people when they don’t get any REM sleep?
I know it’s kinda critical for infants, but what happenes to adults?

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the answer is ofcourse yes, but how much is my question.

i get around 4 to 5 hours of sleep everynight. and sometimes even the 4 to5 hours isnt of DEEP rem sleep but just sleep.

so my question is more towards the brain. can not getting a full 8 hours speed up diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or other brain problems?

soon i will change this habbit, though. (soon as i get a job) lol.

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the answer is ofcourse yes, but how much is my question.

i get around 4 to 5 hours of sleep everynight. and sometimes even the 4 to5 hours isnt of DEEP rem sleep but just sleep.

so my question is more towards the brain. can not getting a full 8 hours speed up diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or other brain problems?

soon i will change this habbit, though. (soon as i get a job) lol.

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take things out of context and make stupid claims?
I’ve heard them claim that "there is no mechanism that could edit a person’s sleep patterns to a polymorphic schedule"
I’m pretty sure we don’t know everything about the brain yet, we don’t know all of the mechanisms
I’ve also heard "they claim that they need to keep themselves busy or they’ll fall asleep and revert to a normal schedule, this means that they are merely under intense sleep deprivation"
yes I’ve read when it says they need to keep themselves busy to stay awake, but the thing he left out is, that only applies DURING THE 10 DAY ACCLIMATION PERIOD, after which one can function normally.
also, sleep deprivation and inability to manipulate sleep patterns to such a degree would mean that in their short sleep cycles (as little as 20 min) polymorphic sleepers would NEVER GET ANY REM SLEEP. but polymorphic sleepers describe INTENSE DREAMING during their sleep cycles, a CLEAR INDICATOR of REM sleep.

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take things out of context and make stupid claims?
I’ve heard them claim that "there is no mechanism that could edit a person’s sleep patterns to a polymorphic schedule"
I’m pretty sure we don’t know everything about the brain yet, we don’t know all of the mechanisms
I’ve also heard "they claim that they need to keep themselves busy or they’ll fall asleep and revert to a normal schedule, this means that they are merely under intense sleep deprivation"
yes I’ve read when it says they need to keep themselves busy to stay awake, but the thing he left out is, that only applies DURING THE 10 DAY ACCLIMATION PERIOD, after which one can function normally.
also, sleep deprivation and inability to manipulate sleep patterns to such a degree would mean that in their short sleep cycles (as little as 20 min) polymorphic sleepers would NEVER GET ANY REM SLEEP. but polymorphic sleepers describe INTENSE DREAMING during their sleep cycles, a CLEAR INDICATOR of REM sleep.

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take things out of context and make stupid claims?
I’ve heard them claim that "there is no mechanism that could edit a person’s sleep patterns to a polymorphic schedule"
I’m pretty sure we don’t know everything about the brain yet, we don’t know all of the mechanisms
I’ve also heard "they claim that they need to keep themselves busy or they’ll fall asleep and revert to a normal schedule, this means that they are merely under intense sleep deprivation"
yes I’ve read when it says they need to keep themselves busy to stay awake, but the thing he left out is, that only applies DURING THE 10 DAY ACCLIMATION PERIOD, after which one can function normally.
also, sleep deprivation and inability to manipulate sleep patterns to such a degree would mean that in their short sleep cycles (as little as 20 min) polymorphic sleepers would NEVER GET ANY REM SLEEP. but polymorphic sleepers describe INTENSE DREAMING during their sleep cycles, a CLEAR INDICATOR of REM sleep.

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