One chapter in my bio psych textbook is related to sleep and biological rhythms. So here I am reading about REM sleep and I just learned that the amount of learning you do during the day affects the amount of REM sleep you get in the night time. For those who don’t know what REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is, it usually occurs before you wake up in the morning. It’s characterized by vivid dreams, rapid heart rate, and paralysis of the limbs (so we don’t act out our dreams!).
Ever notice that when you are studying really intensely for exams you generally have a crappy nights sleep because you’ve been dreaming about the exam you are studying for? REM sleep is used to facilitate the changes responsible for this type of short-term learning. I totally hate those nights where I wake up because I was dreaming about the things I was studying about the day before.
EW.
I'm convinced no one finds this stuff as interesting as I do.
1 comment:
i find that interesting!
also, i've noticed that this so-called paralysis of the limbs hasn't been in full effect for me because i find myself acting out little things that i'm dreaming and when i move, i kind of wake up.
like the other day i was falling asleep and dreaming that i tripped and i moved as if to catch my fall. it was weird. and it's happened a bunch of times.
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