Re:Alternate Sleep Cycles
by jacques_chester on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @05:55PM
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The simplest evidence against the thesis that all you really "need" is REM sleep is obstructive sleep apnoea.
I have OSA. I had it for years before it was diagnosed. I would go to bed and dream more or less non-stop for 10, 12, 14, 16 hours. All the REM sleep a man could ever want.
And I was still tired as buggery.
My idea of a good night's sleep is the deep dreamless kind.
Not to mention sleep's centrality to recovery from physical exercise.
I have OSA. I had it for years before it was diagnosed. I would go to bed and dream more or less non-stop for 10, 12, 14, 16 hours. All the REM sleep a man could ever want.
And I was still tired as buggery.
My idea of a good night's sleep is the deep dreamless kind.
Not to mention sleep's centrality to recovery from physical exercise.