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- From: katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine Merle Mason)
- Subject: Re: Dreams and amount of rest one needs.
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Dec22.023809.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:25:14 GMT
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- I have a friend who is a biology major. I was studying one of her
- texts and it said something that might explain this phenomenon.
- As we all, we cycle through REM and non-REM sleep at night. REM sleep
- is when you get your rest. The book said something about the re-allign-
- ment of neural pathways. The interesting part, however, was that the
- author argued that if you did not get enough REM sleep to correctly
- re-allign these pathways, you will catch up on your sleep by having
- longer REM cycles the next time you sleep. It is possible, I would
- guess, that instead of having longer REM cycles, you could have made
- them more intense, in order that the neural pathways could be re-
- alligned faster.
-
- Either that, or you had a dose of adreneline from the dream which
- allowed you to put off re-allignment for a while. You would have
- to decide for yourself which was the case.
-
- Katherine Merle Mason
- Ne Oublie...
-