NREM

The sleep cycle begins with four stages of SWS (Slow-Wave Sleep), also called NREM (Non-REM).

I had the most boring dream! Ann Althouse 2005

Stages 1-4 are known as the NREM, or non - rapid eye movement periods.

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Stages 1 - 4 are also referred to as NREM (non rapid eye movement) sleep, and account for the majority of sleep time.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

Stages 1 - 4 are also referred to as NREM (non rapid eye movement) sleep, and account for the majority of sleep time.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

Since you can't find food in the dark -- in fact, it's more likely you'd become food -- melatonin acts as a rheostat that lowers body temperature during NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) sleep in order to slow metabolic processes and stave off hunger.

T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System? 2010

Since you can't find food in the dark -- in fact, it's more likely you'd become food -- melatonin acts as a rheostat that lowers body temperature during NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) sleep in order to slow metabolic processes and stave off hunger.

T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System? 2010

For the most part, NREM sleep produces slow alpha and delta brainwave activity on a brain scanner electroencephalogram or EEG, and it is governed by the calming, parasympathetic portion of the nervous system that produces a steady heartbeat and breathing rate with low energy expenditure.

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Now NREM - non rapid eye movement is the state where there is barely any eye movement.

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For the most part, NREM sleep produces slow alpha and delta brainwave activity on a brain scanner electroencephalogram or EEG, and it is governed by the calming, parasympathetic portion of the nervous system that produces a steady heartbeat and breathing rate with low energy expenditure.

The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

The most common parasomnias are the ‘disorders of arousal’, which arise from NREM sleep, particularly the deepest stages slow-wave sleep.

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