Although REM sleep and its significance cannot be conclusively explained to date and investigations and research around the topic are ongoing, it is assumed with the greatest possible certainty that Rapid Eye Movement plays a crucial role in the storage of information in long-term memory as well as in the processing of experiences. Because it is obvious that these processes in the brain are regularly and often impaired in sleep disorders. The consequences are often noticeable conditions in everyday life such as stress and restlessness, worries and sorrow, lack of decision-making ability or even dwindling self-confidence. Emotional and mental fitness suffers. This is because during REM sleep, fears should be overcome, problems solved, new associations created, and stress reduced.
Psychologists at the University of California found that in the Rapid Eye Movement sleep stage , creativity also emerges and imagination can unfold unhindered. Subjects who had fallen into Rapid Eye Movement sleep during their nap were able to continue word series faster and find analogies more quickly. Sigmund Freud once hypothesized that dreaming is a form of tidying up and selecting in memory, which was certainly directional. Because the fact is that REM sleep is indispensable for memory formation and our mental and emotional balance. Ultimately, tests in sleep laboratories show that we are noticeably mentally and physically exhausted after repeated shortening of Rapid Eye Movement sleep.
Rapid Eye Movement during REM sleep is exceedingly important for our recovery.
An absence of REM sleep and thus Rapid Eye Movement leads directly and quickly to exhaustion. This is well observed in drug sleep, which demonstrably lacks the important alternation between the different sleep phases, which includes the REM sleep phase with its rapid eye movements as a crucial component of these sleep stages. Sleep under drugs then also rather reminds of a “comatose dozing”. The hungover awakening from sleep that follows drug use is familiar to many people.
Even more, if Rapid Eye Movement -sleep is suppressed by taking pharmaceuticals over a longer period of time, this leads to a noticeable and strong deterioration of the general well-being and our performance. If such agents are discontinued later, a so-called rebound phenomenon may occur, as an expression of the urgent need to catch up on Rapid Eye Movement -sleep.
In short, if you want to be well equipped mentally and emotionally for everyday life and other challenges, you should ensure a balanced night’s rest with plenty of REM sleep. In addition, simulating REM sleep while awake using Rapid Eye Movement stimulation is highly recommended!
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Rapid Eye Movement – on the track of REM sleep
Our sleep is divided into several phases, which alternate with each other during the night. In addition to the deep and light sleep phases, the so-called Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Rapid Eye Movement – on the track of REM sleep
Our sleep is divided into several phases, which alternate with each other during the night. In addition to the deep and light sleep phases, the so-called Rapid Eye Movement sleep
