It is the final stage of sleep, the phase after deep sleep, and should account for about 25% of total sleep time. However, ...

This sleep phase was discovered in the 1950s by French and American researchers and consequently called rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep), i.e. sleep with rapid eye movements.

"Association of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep With Mortality in Middle-aged and Older Adults" JAMA Neurology (First published online: July 06, 2020) DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.2108.

Certain patterns of brain activity during awakening correlate with a lower likelihood of the bleary-eyed state called ‘sleep ...

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, the period in which we experience vivid dreams, was discovered by scientists in the 1950s. A new study based on rare neuronal data offers the first scientific ...

You might have heard cannabis and cannabinoid products can help people sleep. Data shows one of the top reasons people use ...

Neuroscientists have found that the brain can wake up in different ways, explaining why some mornings feel like a dream and ...

The characteristic eye movements that give rapid eye movement (REM) sleep its name represent gaze shifts in the dream world of sleeping mice, according to a new study. The findings reveal an ...

REM sleep — named for the rapid eye movements associated with it — has been known since the 1950s to be the phase of sleep when dreams occur. But the purpose of the eye movements has remained a matter ...

The rapid eye movements during a mouse's REM sleep provide more insight into the mechanism behind dreaming, a new study finds. It appears that animals can dream too.