REM in only two hours?

**Scarhand** · 09-03-2008 11:21 AM

Yeah, I got my REM last night with less than two hours of sleep. I fell asleep somewhere after 12 and remember waking up around 2 drenched in sweat and I remembered 3 dreams.

I did my reality checks and confirmed it was real.

I wake up after/during my REM every night, and I want to know if it's normal to take around 6 hours to reach it and then having it flux down to two.

**aceofspades** · 09-03-2008 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Scarhand

Yeah, I got my REM last night with less than two hours of sleep. I fell asleep somewhere after 12 and remember waking up around 2 drenched in sweat and I remembered 3 dreams.

I did my reality checks and confirmed it was real.

I wake up after/during my REM every night, and I want to know if it's normal to take around 6 hours to reach it and then having it flux down to two.

...u can always have rem 6 times by taking 20 minutes ....eg. uberman sleep schedule. So yah not too big a deal.

**Scarhand** · 09-07-2008 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by aceofspades

...u can always have rem 6 times by taking 20 minutes ....eg. uberman sleep schedule. So yah not too big a deal.

Thanks, I wasn't thinking about Uberman at first.

**Shift** · 09-07-2008 08:22 PM

You also don't need to be in REM to dream

**Splitter** · 09-07-2008 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Shift

You also don't need to be in REM to dream

Really? I thought you did...
so what are nREM dreams like then?

**PuppyCat** · 09-07-2008 10:26 PM

Not as vivid, and they are harder to remember.

**Scarhand** · 09-08-2008 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by Shift

You also don't need to be in REM to dream

Once again, you have blown my mind.

How can you dream before your REM? Can you go lucid in these?

**Akashicpasses** · 09-12-2008 07:14 PM

I didn't know you could dream without REM either - woah!

I think perhaps I may have experienced this the other day when I looked at the clock upon waking and saw that not long had passed since the last time I'd looked at the clock, but that I had just been dreamnig of something so terrible chasing me out of the dream and had screamed in a dream of a dream before waking up in reality.

If that makes any sense

Anyway, puppycat, that struck a chord with me. Food for thought. Nice

**Scarhand** · 09-12-2008 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by Akashicpasses

I didn't know you could dream without REM either - woah!

I think perhaps I may have experienced this the other day when I looked at the clock upon waking and saw that not long had passed since the last time I'd looked at the clock, but that I had just been dreamnig of something so terrible chasing me out of the dream and had screamed in a dream of a dream before waking up in reality.

If that makes any sense

Anyway, puppycat, that struck a chord with me. Food for thought. Nice

I've had the same happen to me, though it never clicked right in my head.

**Lunica** · 09-12-2008 09:15 PM

I get into REM straight away I have a tester..

**Scarhand** · 09-13-2008 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by Lunica

I get into REM straight away I have a tester..

I really don't understand quite just what you mean with that.

**Lunica** · 09-13-2008 11:47 PM

I was drunk..

ok..

well.. when I go to bed I fall asleep and straight away within the first few minutes I'm dreaming because my boyfriend wakes me up after 3mins and I tell him a dream..

dont you only dream in REM?

**PuppyCat** · 09-14-2008 12:24 AM

Umm. If you had actually read the posts, we have already clarified that you dream in non-REM too.

**Shift** · 09-14-2008 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by puppycat

Umm. If you had actually read the posts, we have already clarified that you dream in non-REM too.

Yea,

**Licity** · 09-14-2008 05:04 AM

Remember that a REM period start approximately once every 90 minutes, so you would fall into REM after 1 hour 30 mins, 3 hours, 4 hours 30 mins, 6 hours, etc.

Possibly, your REM time was delayed by something that caused the 1:30 REM to become closer to 2:00 in.

REM becomes longer with each successive cycle, which is partly why we WBTB late; you typically have better lucid dreams in those longer and clearer REM periods. Consider yourself lucky to remember that many dreams that early!