When you go to sleep in the early hours of the morning, or if you go back to sleep in the morning, why are you much more likely to have a scary dream?
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Pumby umby umpkin Est. 1989
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hmm. Well, i personally haven't experienced this yet.. i guess it depends on what time youre going to to bed and all that. I'm a psychology student and actually just finished up studying sleep patterns - it turns out, we dream in REM sleep which usually occurs about 90minutes after falling asleep. If you are extremely tired, sleep deprived, or anything of the sort, when you lay down you still have non-REM sleep first, but you can be launched into REM quicker - say, after 30 minutes instead of 90. This COULD be why.. if you wake up, move about, then go back to sleep, you might be launched into REM earlier and you simply just remember the dream more since you've already been up and about, perhaps because you wont be gettin a full night so it's easier to remember this one. Or, maybe its because you just tend to remember the scarier dreams more than the happy ones, as they are more traumatizing. haha, it seems i went off on a slight tangent.. but it makes sense in my crazy mind..
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