Thread: REM cycles

Are you sure you woke up in rem? Notice that dreams can also occur in non-rem stages, so it's not that simple to say you've woken up in the end of a cycle.

Damn it, I had no idea dreams could also occur in nREM.
One thing I am absolutely positive is that I fell asleep pretty fast. Besides, I considered 15 minutes for falling asleep, which usually is not little for me. And, anyway, I have no garantees either that it wasn't just the beginning of the cycle... It is so complicate!

Originally Posted by lucsande

Damn it, I had no idea dreams could also occur in nREM.
One thing I am absolutely positive is that I fell asleep pretty fast. Besides, I considered 15 minutes for falling asleep, which usually is not little for me. And, anyway, I have no garantees either that it wasn't just the beginning of the cycle... It is so complicate!

Yeah, N-Rem dreams account for 30% of the total dreams, but they tend to be way less vivid and their content relates more to short-term and residual memory. You can even get Lucid N-rem dreams, but that's an unknown area to the majority of people, and there's not much information about it around.

Hmm, you can always grab a iphone app and track your sleep stages, the fact is that most of them they aren't that accurate. Guess you can only be sure of what happened if you go to sleep lab