How to Use rapid eye movement in a Sentence
rapid eye movement
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The deepest stage of sleep is known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
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Vivid dreams tend to happen during the rapid eye movement phase of sleep.
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2020
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Dreams tend to occur during the rapid eye movement, or REM, phase of sleep.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
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For deep, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, horses do lie down.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
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Vivid dreams happen during the rapid eye movement phase of our sleep cycles.
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2022
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Many sleep disorders, such as insomnia, are caused by a lack of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
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Acting out dreams marks a disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep.
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
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And there’s the stress hormone cortisol, a major component in dream, or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, says Bryant.
—Miriam Foley, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2019
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The brand’s official name, r.e.m. beauty, conjures the dream state — the rapid eye movement stage of slumber — but also smuggles in Grande’s nickname, Ari.
—Allure Editors, Allure, 29 Dec. 2021
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During a rapid eye movement, there are gaps in the visual information our eyes receive.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2023
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Alcohol suppresses the critical phase of sleep known as rapid eye movement (REM), when dreams fire up.
—Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2018
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For starters, airways will close the most during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a stage typically occurring in the morning.
—Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2021
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More than that and the nap may cause grogginess associated with waking from rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep.
—Alex Janin, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
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Here's why: Sleeping in allows more time for a deeper stage of sleep called rapid eye movement, or REM, when the body consolidates and stores memories and restores the body.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 19 Mar. 2021
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The brain cycles through different stages during sleep, including light and deep sleep and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, which is when dreaming occurs.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
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The constant interruption makes if difficult to get enough deep sleep and progress onto the final stage, called rapid eye movement or REM sleep, where dreams occur.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
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Sleep paralysis is caused by what appears to be a basic brain glitch at the interface between wakefulness and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
—Baland Jalal, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
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Nightmares occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
—Nitun Verma, SELF, 3 Nov. 2017
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Also, alcohol reduces rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which helps with brain function.
—Sarah Klein, Health, 13 Mar. 2023
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In a part of the mouse brainstem, cells studded with this receptor were active during wakefulness and quiet during deep (non–rapid eye movement) sleep, the researchers found.
—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 28 Aug. 2019
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All the talk about the stages of sleep and rapid eye movement left me wishing for some rapid narrative movement; the pace is soporific, and Mr. Burns’s penchant for fancy cross-cutting doesn’t really step things up.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
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Dreaming takes place in short bursts roughly every 90 minutes during R.E.M. sleep, a stage of rest characterized by rapid eye movements.
—Caity Weaver, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
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Now a new study has added a twist — playing a sound the person’s memory has associated with a more positive outcome during REM (rapid eye movement) or the dream stage of sleep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
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In humans, sleep is punctuated by rapid eye movement (REM) sleep every 90 minutes.
—David Eagleman, Time, 29 Dec. 2020
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Dreaming is a characterization of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, as well as a faster pulse rate and breathing, which happens at intervals during the night.
—Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 23 Apr. 2020
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Researchers can now identify when most people enter the stage of sleep where much of our dreaming takes place—the rapid eye movement (REM) state—by monitoring brain waves, eye movements, and even snoring.
—Sofia Moutinho, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2021
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These vivid, bizarre involuntary fantasies are associated in people with the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep.
—Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
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The device detected when the participants entered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (so named because the eyes dart from side to side during this phase), when people experience their most vivid dreams.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
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He was influenced by Michel Jouvet, a neurophysiologist who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement and who helped steer Dr. Hobson to study sleep and dreams.
—New York Times, 28 July 2021
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These signals can be easily distinguished from the rapid eye movement (REM) that occurs randomly during dreams.
—Ursula Voss, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017
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