In this stage there is rapid eye movements. During REM sleep, your heart rate increases, breathing becomes irregular and your closed eyes dart around in momentary bursts of activity. This is an announcement of the beginning of a dream. Your brain is very active but the brainstem blocks the messages. This leaves your muscles relaxed.When the muscles are relaxed paralyzation of the body may occur. The REM cycle is also called paradoxical sleep because muscles are relaxed but brain and other body systems are very active. In this stage dreams occur. People might have unique and different dreams because there are so many different ideas and thoughts captured in our brain. Even though the ideas are not related, our brain finds a way to connect them all together. Thus resulting in a dream. REM sleep is the shortest stage of the first sleep cycle but the longest stage of the last sleep
In this stage there is rapid eye movements. During REM sleep, your heart rate increases, breathing becomes irregular and your closed eyes dart around in momentary bursts of activity. This is an announcement of the beginning of a dream. Your brain is very active but the brainstem blocks the messages. This leaves your muscles relaxed.When the muscles are relaxed paralyzation of the body may occur. The REM cycle is also called paradoxical sleep because muscles are relaxed but brain and other body systems are very active. In this stage dreams occur. People might have unique and different dreams because there are so many different ideas and thoughts captured in our brain. Even though the ideas are not related, our brain finds a way to connect them all together. Thus resulting in a dream. REM sleep is the shortest stage of the first sleep cycle but the longest stage of the last sleep