As a child growing up I was often advised to get at least 8 hours of sleep daily, but never knew exactly why. Due to me not knowing the meaning of acquit amount of sleep I form the mentality that sleep is sleep, right? However in reality, while the body is at rest there is still a lot going on inside of our head due to the activity of the brain. In today’s society we are taught there are two main type of sleep: Non- Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) which is also known as the quiet sleep and consist of four stages in which we move from a light sleep during the first stage to a very deep stage in the 4th, and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) in which is known as the paradoxical sleep or final stage of Sleep.
During the first phases of sleep, the brain is
During the first phases of sleep, the brain is