REM Sleep

How the amount of REM sleep you get can change. It’s the time of night where most likely you would be dreaming. People believe one reason as a child you have a higher amount of dreams as a kid because as a child you get more REM sleep. REM sleep is part of a cycle of how you sleep so say you were woken up in the middle of the night during REM sleep you might ruin that cycle. When we are sleeping and specifically in REM sleep our brains are reorganizing itself and it is also giving itself a deep clean. There are also other things that can affect how you sleep at night like sleep behavior disorder, basically during their dreams when they are supposed to be resting there body and dreaming should be a brain activity. People with the sleep behavior

disorder will start actually using their body including talking, kicking, hitting, sleep walking and many more. Something that I have also seen is that a lot of people say oh I’m a heavy sleeper, but one of my questions if you aren’t actually deep sleeping for very long when you sleep why don’t those people who say they are deep sleepers wake up easily?
One aspect of this project the I would really like to get into is how REM sleep can affect your day and also just your whole week or life.

As you go on your REM sleep changes and makes it so you are now not in as much of a deep sleep as you use to be. When you are a baby you sleep for a lot longer than you do when your and adult. When you are a baby you sleep for 16 to 18 hour, when you are in school age you need a bout 9.5 hours and when you are and adult all you need is 7 to 9 hours it’s a big change over the years how much sleep you need to function but in the beginning if you don’t sleep more maybe your brain won’t develop

enough.
Sleep is what re-energize us, clearing the waste from our brain and body cells. Sleep also supports our learning and memory in the brain. It also plays important roles in regulation of mood, and appetite. The brain generates two different types of sleep. There is slow-wave sleep (SWS), which is a deep sleep. REM sleep is the time of sleep where you are in a deep sleep and your eyes start to move side to side a lot. Most of our sleep is of the low-wave sleep. Its determined by the slow brain waves, how the muscle is relaxed and how deep we are breathing. Which all helps the body rejuvenate. During REM sleep, the activity of the brain is similar to a person who is awake. It is during this stage of sleep that dreaming is to happen, which is proposed to be a structure to replay and process mental catalyst in order to extract meaning and create memories.

The new discipline , published online today in Science, reports the discovery of a genetic mutation on the gene DEC2 that appears to allow the mother –daughter duet of "shortstop railroad tie "—and a fistful of transgenic mice—to truly need less sleep.

Sleep Deprivation Can Change Your Genes. Blood samples taken after just one week of getting fewer than six hours of sleep a night showed changes to more than 700 genes due to sleep deprivation alone, according to the study. Researchers don’t entirely understand the persona of each of these genes and what the changes may mean, Bloomberg reported, but at least some affect our inflammatory, immune and stress responses, researchers

noted.
Blood samples taken after just one week of getting fewer than six hours of sleep a night showed changes to more than 700 genes due to sleep deprivation alone, according to the study. Researchers don’t entirely understand the role of each of these genes and what the changes may mean, Bloomberg reported, but at least some affect our inflammatory, immune and stress responses, researchers noted.
In conclusion I believe that it is true that you have more Rem sleep as a child because as a child you have 80% REM sleep and as you get older that lowers because in adults they only account for about 20 to 25% REM sleep.