Episode 131: Sleep Science
The Science of Everything Podcast
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What You Don't Know About Rem Sleep
Rem sleep is only entered after you've gone from wakefulness down to stage three and then back up, so to speak, to stage one. It's thought that the loss of muscle tone during rem sleep may be a mechanism to prevent or diminish people from acting out in response to their dream state. Why we dream in the first place is unknown. And talk more about that later when i get to talking about the function of sleep.
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