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Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) is a normal stage of sleep characterized by the rapid and random movement of the eyes. REM sleep is classified into two categories: tonic and phasic. It was identified and defined by Nathaniel Kleitman, Eugene Aserinsky, and Jon Birtwell in the early 1950s. Criteria for REM sleep includes rapid eye movement, but also low muscle tone and a rapid, low-voltage EEG; these features are easily discernible in a polysomnogram, the sleep study typically done for patients with suspected sleep disorders. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20–25% of total sleep, about 90–120 minutes of a night's sleep. REM sleep normally occurs close to morning. During a normal night of sleep, humans usually experience about four or five periods of REM sleep; they are quite short at the beginning of the night and longer toward the end. Many animals and some people tend to wake, or experience a period of very light sleep, for a short time immediately after a bout of REM. The relative amount of REM sleep varies considerably with age. A newborn baby spends more than 80% of total sleep time in REM. During REM, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the REM-sleep stage may be called paradoxical sleep. REM sleep is physiologically different from the other phases of sleep, which are collectively referred to as non-REM sleep (NREM sleep). Subjects' vividly recalled dreams mostly occur during REM sleep.
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Telepathy (from the Greek τηλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθη, pathe meaning "affliction, experience") is the supposed transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference. Scientific consensus does not view telepathy as a real phenomenon. Many studies seeking to detect, understand, and utilize telepathy have been done, but according to the prevailing view among scientists, telepathy lacks replicable results from well-controlled experiments. Telepathy is a common theme in modern fiction and science fiction, with many superheroes and supervillains having telepathic abilities.
Originally posted by KhufuKeplerTriangle
reply to post by DreamerOracle
The dep might make it more intense, but i don't recommend losing sleep on purpose!!
It causes you not to be able to remember as much.
might be permanent too (ex gamer)
Originally posted by Dark_Matters
I'm starting to think there is more to the human brain, especially in dream state, that we don't understand.
Maybe our bodies subconsciously take control of the mind and use the wasted 90% (or whatever it is we don't use)
during sleep?
Possible?
Originally posted by DreamerOracle
reply to post by lovemyworld
All the time... It gets quite perturbing for my friends and family when I happen to speak what they are About to say. Imagine if I worked for Wikileaks
Originally posted by DreamerOracle
Originally posted by Dark_Matters
I'm starting to think there is more to the human brain, especially in dream state, that we don't understand.
Maybe our bodies subconsciously take control of the mind and use the wasted 90% (or whatever it is we don't use)
during sleep?
Possible?
I truly believe so and it may just go to show what we are truly capable of... We have simply lost the How Too ways of accessing that 90% in the waking world. Could it be evolutionary change in how our brain is wired? All we can do is hazard a guess at... Then wait for the day when knowledge about these phenomena is unveiled by some future science and the true extent of human capability is finaly realised. Human Nature permitting that is