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rapid eye movement

noun as in recurring sleep state

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Researchers found no evidence that slumbering longer at any one stage of sleep affected brain functions, contradicting a long-debated hypothesis that rapid eye movement or REM sleep is more beneficial to healthier brain function.

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They have long thought these insights came from the rapid eye movement stage of sleep, which is rich with dreams and begins an hour or more into the sleep cycle.

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You never enter restful rapid eye movement sleep, since you have spent the night basically holding your breath.

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While in rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, which is the deepest stage of sleep, the seals stayed upside down, oblivious to their slow descent.

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Sleeping for longer, uninterrupted periods of time allows for REM sleep, a period of unconscious rapid eye movement that corresponds with high activity in the brain.

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