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REM

REM

13 5.2
A stage of sleep when your eyes move quickly and you have clear dreams
  • noun
  • /rɛm/
  • Specialized
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  • I always know I'm REM sleep deprived when I'm irritable.
  • REM sleep
  • rapid eye movement

And, and there's a relationship between REM sleep and fertility, right.

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Examples

  • You get hard numbers as to like when you had deep sleep, REM sleep, all that stuff.

  • Most of the REM sleep, this dreaming sleep happens in the second-half of the night.

  • You build up this pressure for REM sleep, this debt for REM sleep.

  • I am in the middle of a REM cycle over here.

  • When we sleep, there are two basic phases: REM sleep and deep sleep.

    Blog text (11)
  • Our brains seem to use sleep, perhaps REM sleep specifically, to lay down new emotional memories.

    Blog text (9)
  • His eyes rolled and jiggled under his closed lids, a sure sign of REM sleep.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • People with a REM sleep behavior disorder may enact their dreams while they're in REM sleep, usually keeping their eyes closed.

  • And so if you're learning a lot and you need more REM sleep to consolidate that, it will get more REM sleep at the cost of other states of sleep.

  • During a typical night, people experience several cycles of non-REM and REM sleep.

Synonyms

REM sleep
vsREM
  • Specialized
10 4.1

A stage of sleep with fast eye movement, clear dreams, and high brain activity

focuses on recurring eye movements and vivid dreaming without brain detail
rapid eye movement
vsREM
  • Specialized
2 3.9

A stage of sleep when the eyes move quickly and you have vivid dreams

refers to the recurring dreaming stage rather than movement detail
rapid eye movement sleep
vsREM
  • Specialized
1 3.7

A sleep stage when the eyes move quickly and most dreaming happens

describes recurring stage with eye movements and vivid dreaming only
paradoxical sleep
vsREM
  • Specialized
6.3

A part of sleep when the eyes move quickly and dreams feel real

defines the recurring dreaming stage without mentioning wakeful brain patterns

Compounds

REM sleep
  • Specialized
10 4.1

A stage of sleep with fast eye movement, clear dreams, and high brain activity

9.9

A court decision that says who owns a particular thing

Surface Forms

REM singular
REMs plural

Etymology

REM is the short form of Rapid Eye Movement, literally 'rapid eye movement', named because during this sleep stage your eyes move quickly under your closed lids while you have vivid dreams. So REM now refers to the part of sleep with fast eye movements and strong dreams.