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Can Excessive REM Sleep Be Bad?
Some days I get three hours of REM sleep in about 15 minutes of slow wave sleep and have no idea why. Can excessive REM sleep be bad? Your body kind of knows how to allocate its sleep time, says Dr. David Perry. In general, as long as you're getting into the deeper stages of sleep, you can sort of trust that your body's allocating it according to what it needed.