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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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Is REM Sleep Really Deeper?

In children, it's really hard to wake them up out of that deep slow way of sleep. Even really loud fire alarms don't wake them up. So the body and brain are somehow conscious of the sound. And I've heard also smells can even make it into our dreams and REM sleep, but that it doesn't arouse us as often. Maybe one of the reasons why REM sleep is deeper, especially in adults and older people, that deep slowWay of sleep goes away. We are paralyzed during REM sleep, correct? Yes, normally paralyzed,. That's good because that's the time when we're actively dreaming storyline dreams. Otherwise, you will act out those dreams and really hurt

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