REM Sleep: Emotional Processing and Adjusting Perceptions
- REM sleep increases throughout the night, characterized by rapid eye movement, paralysis, and lack of epinephrine and norepinephrine.
- This stage is crucial for processing emotions, themes, and meanings through dreams, as well as “uncoupling” distressing emotions from experiences.
- REM sleep deprivation results in difficulty coping with stress, distorted thinking, and irritability.
- Therapies like EMDR and ketamine facilitate effects similar to REM sleep by altering perceptions and emotional responses.
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This podcast focuses on the science and significance of sleep, dreaming, and neuroplasticity. Specifically, it explores the roles of slow-wave sleep and REM sleep in learning and unlearning emotional experiences and traumatic events.
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