What foods did you used to eat but NEVER buy anymore?

I did Google it and 100% of every site on the net agrees with me. So yes you are a 100% moron.

Ernest Hartmann, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston, Mass., explains.

Some scientists take the position that dreaming probably has no function. They feel that sleep, and within it REM sleep, have biological functions (though these are not totally established) and that dreaming is simply an epiphenomenon that is the mental activity that occurs during REM sleep.

The human brain is a mysterious little ball of gray matter. After all these years, researchers are still baffled by many aspects of how and why it operates like it does. Scientists have been performing sleep and dream studies for decades now, and we still aren't 100 percent sure about the function of sleep, or exactly how and why we dream. We do know that our dream cycle is typically most abundant and best remembered during the REM stage of sleep.

Sleep is very individual, with no absolute rules about what signs indicate "better" or "worse" sleep. But in general it's true that remembering more of your dreams is associated with shallower or more interrupted sleep.

E.g. from this Columbia site:

"You’ve probably heard of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. This is one level [out of five] deeper than the lightest stage of sleep that you experience as you fall asleep at night... During REM sleep, the brain is very active. If for some reason you are spending more time in REM sleep than is typical, it may be that you are not sleeping as deeply as you are during those months when you aren’t remembering your dreams."

http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/when-i-dream-i-feel-unrested

Sleep is prompted by natural cycles of activity in the brain and consists of two basic states: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, which consists of Stages 1 through 4.

During sleep, the body cycles between non-REM and REM sleep. Typically, people begin the sleep cycle with a period of non-REM sleep followed by a very short period of REM sleep. Dreams generally occur in the REM stage of sleep.

Stage Five: REM

Most dreaming occurs during Stage Five, known as REM. REM sleep is characterized by eye movement, increased respiration rate and increased brain activity. REM sleep is also referred to as paradoxical sleep because, while the brain and other body systems become more active, your muscles become more relaxed, or paralyzed. Dreaming occurs because of increased brain activity, but voluntary muscles become paralyzed. Voluntary muscles are those that you need to move by choice, for example, your arms and legs. Involuntary muscles are those that include your heart and gut. They move on their own.

Rapid eye movement sleepFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a stage of sleep characterized by the rapid and random movement of the eyes. Rapid eye movement sleep is classified into two categories: tonic and phasic.[1] It was identified and defined by Nathaniel Kleitman and his student Eugene Aserinsky in 1953. Criteria for REM sleep includes rapid eye movement, low muscle tone and a rapid, low-voltage EEG; these features are easily discernible in a polysomnogram,[2] the sleep study typically done for patients with suspected sleep disorders.[3]

REM sleep typically occupies 20–25% of total sleep, about 90–120 minutes of a night's sleep. REM sleep is considered the deepest stage of sleep, and normally occurs close to morning.[4] During a night of sleep, one usually experiences about four or five periods of REM sleep; they are quite short at the beginning of the night and longer toward the end. Many animals and some people tend to wake, or experience a period of very light sleep, for a short time immediately after a bout of REM. The relative amount of REM sleep varies considerably with age. A newborn baby spends more than 80% of total sleep time in REM.[5] During REM, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the REM-sleep stage may be called paradoxical sleep.[6]

REM sleep is physiologically different from the other phases of sleep, which are collectively referred to as non-REM sleep (NREM sleep). Subjects' vividly recalled dreams mostly occur during REM sleep.

Psychology, answered

The most memorable and emotionally powerful dreams happen during the REM (rapid-eye movement) phase of sleep, which is the stage of… More sleep when our brains are most similar to a wakeful state.

It is during REM that the hippocampus and amygdala, two organs in our heads responsible for memory and emotions respectively, and areas in the frontal and prefrontal lobes near the forehead responsible for attention and coordination, work together in dream production.

If, for example, you have a fear of flying and it’s literally on your mind, you’re more likely to produce an associated image of that fear, which then emerges during REM as those emotionally-charged areas of the brain become activated.

Exceptionally vivid and memorable dreams occur just before we wake up, but it’s possible that we’ve been dreaming similar themes all night long during the four or five phases of REM that we go through. So even though we recall just what we dreamed about in the last cycle, it could be reflective of the night’s cumulative dream content. Like a single television show with one theme interrupted by unrelated commercials, which are the other phases of sleep where we don’t dream.

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Deleteme wrote:

I did Google it and 100% of every site on the net agrees with me. So yes you are a 100% moron.

You're obviously Googling the wrong topic. Read up on what it means when you're dreaming more.

REM Sleep

REM is probably the most important sleep stage for those who are interested in dreams, because this is when we experience dreams. While there have been recordings of dreams during the other sleep stages, generally REM is considered the stage in which we experience our dreams.

hold the phone wrote:

Sleep is very individual, with no absolute rules about what signs indicate "better" or "worse" sleep. But in general it's true that remembering more of your dreams is associated with shallower or more interrupted sleep....

See, this guy gets it.

sleep runner wrote:

Deleteme wrote:

I did Google it and 100% of every site on the net agrees with me. So yes you are a 100% moron.

You're obviously Googling the wrong topic. Read up on what it means when you're dreaming more.

Now you're changing the topic. Typical from a total moron that has clearly made a complete asss out of himself.

Thank you for your capitulation moron.

donuts, fast food

Deleteme wrote:

sleep runner wrote:

You're obviously Googling the wrong topic. Read up on what it means when you're dreaming more.

Now you're changing the topic. Typical from a total moron that has clearly made a complete asss out of himself.

Thank you for your capitulation moron.

Nothing you've posted proves your point. All I see from you is background on what REM sleep is, not what might cause one to remember more dreams.

It is a very long list.

Lucky Charms

Deleteme wrote:

sleep runner wrote:

You're obviously Googling the wrong topic. Read up on what it means when you're dreaming more.

Now you're changing the topic. Typical from a total moron that has clearly made a complete asss out of himself.

Thank you for your capitulation moron.

I was really enjoying reading this post until you turned it into an argument about REM sleep, which you happen to be wrong about from the looks of it :)

I stopped eating Gluten and Dairy. I don't have to poop during the middle of runs anymore!

Deleteme wrote:

Now I'm hitting REM like crazy every night. I can tell by the vivid dreams I'm having now, along with the constant nighttime erections.

I cut out coffee and this happened to me too. The erections! Oh God, the erections!

I cut off all food. After reading many diet books I discovered anything and everything I ate was terrible for me so I quit eating it. No fat, no carbs, no protein, no soy...just celery sticks and water. Now I'm emaciated, malnourished, and can barely stand but at least I'm eating healthy.