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In obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) the airway collapses, causing breathing to stop and start during the night. Sleep apnea can occur in NREM or REM but can be more pronounced during REM sleep. This is thought to be down to the reduced muscle tone that occurs during REM sleep. One hypothesis is that REM sleep is important for brain development. As we’ve mentioned earlier, REM sleep was first identified in babies, and we now know that newborn mammals (including humans) spend most of their early lives in REM sleep. 5 If you’ve ever seen your pet dog or cat twitching in their sleep, then it’s highly likely that they’re in REM sleep. REM sleep may also facilitate learning. 10 There’s an interesting study that suggests that during REM sleep the brain sorts and filters connections that have been made in the brain during the day. It keeps connections that are useful or important and cuts those that we don’t need to keep.

Simple steps you can take to improve your sleep can include setting up a wind-down routine that you can follow each evening, reducing screen time before bed and ensuring your bedroom is a calm and inviting place in which to sleep. The famous scene of Emilia confronting Echidna following the graveyard trials has been faithfully captured in figure form. Fans are sure to remember Emilia's unperturbed expression as she confidently introduced herself, shortly after being called a "loose woman" by Echidna. The figure comes with two face parts—a confident expression and a smiling expression—that both look great with her pointing pose. Enjoy Emilia's cool and cute looks with new resolve in her heart! We don’t know with 100% certainty the exact reasons for this unique sleep stage. Many theories have been put forward and the fact that we experience most of our dreams during REM may be important. We’ve already mentioned that our sleep is organised into cycles. In the first cycle, the time spent in REM sleep is usually quite short, lasting as little as 1-5 minutes. 11 With each further sleep cycle, the time we spend in REM increases and the final cycle of REM before you wake up can last for up to an hour. 12

When you sleep well, you’ll benefit from a natural balance between all of the sleep stages. So remember, if you’re taking good care of your sleep, then your REM will take care of itself. Summary Jouvet M, Michel F. Electromyographic correlations of sleep in the chronic decorticate & mesencephalic cat. Comptes rendus des seances de la Societe de biologie et de ses filiales. 1959;153(3):422-5. REM sleep may be important for strengthening and maintaining synapses (the branches) in the brain (the tree). 10 It’s thought that memories and processes involved in motor learning are processed during REM in this way.

Comments that are not in accordance with the Guidelines and/or that violate TOM’s Terms of Use and/or other policies are eligible to be reported or removed. Each sleep cycle lasts somewhere between 90-120 minutes and the cycles lengthen throughout the night. With each sleep cycle, the amount of time you spend in REM increases, so the latter half of the night is when you should be getting most of your REM sleep.Though the actual mechanisms involved are far more complex, this is a good way to think of memory consolidation. REM is also thought to be a stage of sleep that’s key for certain types of memories being formed and consolidated. 5 It’s thought that emotions and emotional memories are processed during REM 9 as well as memories related to motor learning (movement). 10 You can think of memory consolidation as a bit like scrolling through the videos and photos on your phone. But as we’ve already discussed, during REM your brain activity is similar to when you’re awake, which doesn’t quite fit with being ‘deep sleep’. When we talk about true ‘deep sleep’ we’re referring to the third sleep stage, often called N3 or slow-wave sleep.

As we’ve talked about in the last section, REM sleep is thought to be the time when we process emotions that we’ve experienced during the day and it’s the stage of sleep in which we consolidate these emotional memories. Similarly, certain medications used to treat depression may lead to reduction or loss of REM sleep phase for the person taking them. Yet the person doesn’t experience negative effects as a result, even when the drug is taken for several years. 13 Do animals have REM sleep? There’s no set figure for how long you should spend in REM each night. It can vary on a day-to-day basis and will depend on factors such as your age and lifestyle. It’s generally accepted that REM sleep makes up somewhere between 20-25% of our sleep when we’re sleeping well. There are four sleep stages and you cycle through them several times a night. Stages 1-3 are called non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and stage 4, the one we’re going to focus on in this article, is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.Just imagine a fruit tree that’s grown lots of new branches. Although the growth is good and shows the tree’s healthy, not all the branches are needed or helpful for the tree to bear fruit. Can you have too much REM sleep? It seems so. It’s known that stress and anxiety can lead to increased time spent in REM and can alter when we go into REM and how long we spend in this stage. 18 Too much REM can leave you feeling tired and groggy the next day. As humans develop and mature, the amount of REM sleep gets less and less and eventually levels out in early adulthood. 6 Levels remain consistent until later adulthood, when sleep can become more fragmented and REM sleep levels reduce. 7 8 Li W, Ma L, Yang G, Gan W-B. REM sleep selectively prunes and maintains new synapses in development and learning. Nat Neurosci 2017; 20: 427–437.