My mom told me that waking up at any point kind of makes the sleep you got not count. Like I know that when you sleep, you cycle through a few stages of sleep, and the ultimate is to get to REM, but it just doesn’t make sense that any and all sleep you had gotten before you woke up was for nothing because you woke up.

Am I making sense? I feel like i could be a little more clear with what I am asking, but I can’t think of how to say it.

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Do dreams occur only in REM sleep stage or in all stages of sleep?

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i was just wondering if ambien cr disrupts normal sleep cycles. it says its safer than (ex: xanax,valium, etc) in reserving REM sleep. is this true? it has no eefect on any stages of sleep and if so why?

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I asked a question about dreams the other day and a person responded that if you didn’t go through all 4 stages of sleep especially REM sleep that you’ll wake up feeling unrested. They said that REM is responsible for that rested feeling, so I’m wondering if you only sleep the minumum allowed to go through all four stage’s will you at least wake up feeling somewhat rested?

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I know that there are four stages of sleep. ! is the lightest stage, and 4 is the deepest stage, and that 20 percent of our sleep is spent in REM. Also, that our bodies drift inbetween these cycles over 90-110 minute periods. What id like to know is, will i be more tired THROUGHOUT my day if i am awaken during an REM cycle than i would had i awaken in stage one or two?

I ask because i notice even though i go to sleep the same time everynight, some mornings im alot more tired than others, recently ive found that by waking up 40 minutes earlier i feel more energized. My average amount of sleep is averaged around 7 hours.

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This is a very weird and bad case of insomnia. My problem isn’t getting to sleep, and it never has been. But for some reason, I’m only sleeping 4 hours now.. its been happening for over two weeks. No matter what home remedy I try, after EXACTLY four hours (It’s very spooky how exact this is, folks…) I will wake up, feeling wide awake and physically impossible to fall back asleep.

What is going on in that brain of mine? Am I skipping out on one of sleep’s stages, or are all my stages of sleep being condensed itno a "micro session", I do crash hard so I know the 4 hours a night is not enough, but what the hell is wrong with me?

When I wake up, my mouth is completly dry and I have a very strong need to urinate. Even though I don’t drink anything before bed. I’ve been thinking.. possibly diabetes, I hope not, but at this point, just figuring out the cause of this would be a relief anyway. BTW, I have seen a doctor for this, and got Lunesta, and it didn’t work

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