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      The Importance of REM Atonia; Dog Runs in Sleep :D

      Quote Originally Posted by Thor View Post
      REM atonia.[1] When you fall asleep you first go into non-REM sleep stages. In these sleep stages the tone (tension) of your skeletal muscles is reduced, that is, you become physically relaxed. You can still move, even though movements may be sluggish. For example, you can turn around in your sleep.

      When you enter the REM stage, the skeletal muscles (except for the eye muscles and the diaphragm) become paralyzed. Since there is practically no muscle tone at all, this is called REM atonia. When you exit the REM stage, the muscles go back to the reduced muscle tone of non-REM sleep.

      There are two ways that REM atonia could go wrong: it could be activated outside of REM sleep, or it could fail to be activated during REM sleep. The former type of failure results in a sleep disorder that I'll discuss in the next section. The latter type of failure is a more serious type of disorder called REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) that causes people to act out their dreams during REM sleep.[2]

      Yea who knows, maybe it was NREM and he really was just sleep walking. But damn That's gotta hurt! Makes you appreciate the little things in life, like your nightly REM atonia sessions!!!
      Last edited by Shift; 03-03-2009 at 02:41 PM.

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      HAhahahhahahah. that was so funny.


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      HAaHAhaAhAhahAhAhahHAhAhAHha!!

      Poor little guy.
      http://i.imgur.com/Ke7qCcF.jpg
      (Or see the very best of my journal entries @ dreamwalkerchronicles.blogspot)

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      LOL!

      That can be dangerous, though. I've seen happen in my family.
      And I'm gonna be next.
      And considering how much I fly in dreams...
      Ouch.

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      Poor little guy! Good thing I've never had anything like that happen to me before.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Daniel Danciu View Post
      Poor little guy! Good thing I've never had anything like that happen to me before.
      REM Behavior Disorder ftw!

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      You were the first to make me laugh today, congrats
      if you can read this then you are about to be punched

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      Poor doggy! It was funny to watch, but I feel guilty laughing, hehe.

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      lmao.......what a funny dog. The best part was when he woke up and had dumb look on its face as if it too say what the hell just happened!

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