What Is Rapid Eye Movement Sleep?

Sleep is a funny thing in that way. A sleep, at least in humans, and in all mammalian species, is broadly separated into two main types. On the one hand, we have non rapid eye movement sleep, or what we call non rem sleep for short. And then on the other side we have rapid eye movementsleep which is named not after the popular michael stip 19 nineties ind pot band, but because of these bizarre, horizontal, shuttling eye movements during the stage of sleep. Jane: There are real ramifications, day to day, practical for understanding how all sleep works.