Thread: Getting back m Recall?

How exactly do REM cycles work? How often do I go into REM sleep? Is it three hours from falling asleep?

Originally Posted by Draemer90

How exactly do REM cycles work? How often do I go into REM sleep? Is it three hours from falling asleep?

typically you will have a cycle every 90 minutes

initially the non-rem is long and the rem is short like 5-10 min at the end

then each cycle the non-rem becomes less and the rem more

but if you take stuff to suppress rem early you may go 3+hrs without rem and then
have more rem latter on (like the 5HTP I took)
(that is called rem rebound)

When I nap on into a weekend the cycle it self seems to shorten to like only be 1hr and then even 45min if I have been sleeping off an on for like 11+hrs or so (but maybe I'm just skipping the non-rem part being awake) (but even when I just keep trying to immediately fall back asleep, because I can't remember the dream I have awoken from they seem to get shorter and shorter)

Normally you just have 90 minute ones for like 5 times per night tho

Cooleymd,

Thanks for the quick response. I guess it doesn't really matter if you have a regular sleep schedule. Maybe I'm wrong. What are the benefits of knowing when your REM cycles are?


WBTB technique perhaps...