Monday, February 1, 2016
My Sleep Cycle Experience
Over the weekend, I had an interesting sleep experience that helped confirm the information we have learned on the sleep cycle. We have learned that we have several sleep cycles when we get a good night's sleep. Once sleep cycle consists of four stages. The first stage is light sleep then as fall deeper into your sleep, you eventually reach Rapid Eye Movement sleep. Rapid Eye Movement sleep is the part of your sleep when you dream. We learned that on average, one full cycle of sleep lasts about an hour and a half. This Sunday, my alarm woke me up at 7 a.m., but I ignored it and fell back asleep. I woke myself up again at around 8:30 a.m. I had awakened and realized that I had remembered a dream. I thought this was interesting because in that hour and a half I had gone through the sleep cycle, where I reached REM and dreamed. This confirms exactly what we learned about in class. I just thought I should share because this was a cool experience for me.
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This is a great post Arden! I really appreciate that you applied what we learned in class to your own sleep cycle, and was able to confirm what Mr. Stewart taught us in class. Your post makes me what to try to fall asleep for a half an hour, and see if the same thing happens to me. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThats awesome! What a coincidence, one sleep cycle is said to be exactly an hour and a half as well.So I'm assuming you woke up right out of the REM stage of your sleep.
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