rapid eye movement

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The findings support the idea that REM sleep, the rapid eye movement stage of sleep when vivid and sometimes lucid dreams occur, may be especially helpful for creative problem solving.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2026

Lucid dreams are generally thought to emerge from standard dreams in rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2023

Researchers found no evidence that slumbering longer at any one stage of sleep affected brain functions, contradicting a long-debated hypothesis that rapid eye movement or REM sleep is more beneficial to healthier brain function.

From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2023

They have long thought these insights came from the rapid eye movement stage of sleep, which is rich with dreams and begins an hour or more into the sleep cycle.

From Scientific American • May 15, 2023

This cycle appears analogous, the researchers said, to the alternating rapid eye movement, or REM, and non-rapid eye movement, or non-REM, sleep states experienced by people, as well as other mammals, birds and reptiles.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2021