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Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on Sleep

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Can You Have Rem Sleep Without Itonia?

There are dissociated states where sleep intrudes into wakefulness. It might be that some of these states, when your forebrain is in slow sleep, and your hippocampus says in rem sleep, the it happens quite normally. This may be very necessary for consolidating memories or integrating new things into old information. We don't know the answer yet.

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