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Night terrors (also called sleep terrors) are parasomnias. Parasomnias can occur during rapid eye movement (REM sleep), or they can occur during the non-REM sleep. Most of your sleep is non-REM and only a portion of your sleep is REM and that's when you do most of your dreaming. (Video is about 3 minutes) American Sleep Apnea Association https://www.sleepapnea.org/videos/ The American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of those affected by sleep apnea and leads the search for the elimination of this syndrome in future generations.------Video by Mayo Clinic (Video is about 1 hour)
The AASM Sleep Medicine Fellowship Directors Council offers a free healthcare webinar lecture series for sleep medicine fellows and interested residents. In this lecture, Erik K. St. Louis, MD, MS, discusses REM sleep behavior disorder and REM sleep without atonia: prodromal synucleiopathy and beyond. |
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The negative effects from lack of REM sleep are serious: Without this critical sleep stage, your immune system could be weakened, you may experience pain more deeply, and the growth of new healthy cells and tissue in the body might be blocked. Poor REM sleep may be due to sleep disorders such as insomnia or obstructive sleep apnea, which causes you to wake during the night. https://www.thensf.org/what-is-rem-sleep/ (Video is about 6 minutes) Watch this 5-minute animated video to learn how to stop nightmares and return to peaceful sleep using The Dream Completion Technique. Watch the extended version with additional teaching at http://tiny.cc/stopnightmares-extra (Video is about 44 minutes)
Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation https://www.rls.org RLS is perhaps the most common condition you have never heard of, affecting more people than even type 2 diabetes. Up to 7-8% of the population has this neurological condition with 2–3% experiencing severe symptoms that affect their quality of life and require pharmaceutical treatment to manage their symptoms. |
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves