What Are the Functions of REM Sleep?
During REM sleep, your brain consolidates memories you made during the day. Learn more from Michael Timothy Smith, MA, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at Johns Hopkins University, in this HealthMakers video.
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The functions of REM sleep are really multiple. They definitely play a role in affect regulation,
of regulating your mood, optimizing how you can regulate your affect during the day, processing memories, connecting your memories that have already
been deemed important which often are kind of processed in the non-rem sleep, but connecting them with the whole matrix of who you are, right?
So it's forming these associations and that's why dreams are so bizarre. It's like this firing of your brain and all those circuits
and links to various memories all get activated. And it's putting together stuff that you experience during the day, those activation patterns with old patterns.
And some of that's sort of random, which is interesting. And so, I think, REM sleep is important for creativity in that respect, because it's putting stuff together
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