Psychology / Unit 3 Psych 0319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Confusing REM with Deep Sleep
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The idea
It is an error to treat REM sleep as the deepest stage of sleep because it is the stage of vivid dreaming.
In practice
Slow-wave N3 sleep is harder to wake from than REM, while producing little of the dreaming people remember.
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