I've found with recent use of a lucid dreaming app, that when I wake up after every REM period, (as opposed to normal sleep where I sleep right through), I feel like I have slept for a LOT longer.
I think it is because when you wake up after every dream you remember them more, so your sleep seems longer. It could be something else entirely, but that seems to make sense to me.
My rest felt several hours longer than normal, when waking up after or during every dream.
You also do dream outside REM periods. The dreams are just more like hypnogogia. Not very vivid and generally less structured (i.e all over the place, very random etc.).
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