• Question: is it true we have several dreams in the night but only remember some ?

    Asked by anon-189325 to Rachel on 9 Nov 2018.
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      Rachel Sharman answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      Fantastic question!

      It is so hard to study dreams because to figure out if someone is dreaming you have to wake them up and ask them! Then you cant really study their sleep for the rest of the night.

      Some researchers have done this and they suggest that we dream all through the night but it is during REM sleep that our dreams are the most vivid! We usually have around 4-5 REM cycles each night. The first third of our night is mostly deep sleep and the last third is mostly REM sleep. This is why we almost always wake up out of a dream! We think the person needs to wake up immediately after the dream to be able to remember it.

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