Less Sleep Equals More Dreams?

Scientific American ran an article in September about the duration of REM sleep in relation to missing sleep. The surprising observation is that sleep deprivation can increase REM sleep periods in subsequent night’s sleep.

For example, being deprived of thirty minutes of REM in one night can precede a 35% increase in REM state during the subsequent night’s sleep.

From: Scientific American

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
articleID=239C577A-E7F2-99DF-38DA961471472CDD 

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