Personal Narrative: The Four Stages Of Sleep

In Chapter three I found the sleeping stages very interesting. I think that it is amazing that there are four total stages of sleep once you start sleeping. Also, it is cool that about every ninety minutes, you cycle through four distinct sleep stages. Out of all the stages the one that caught my attention the most was the last stage, the REM stage. This stage surprised me the most because it said that this stage arouses people the most, especially if you were to have a nightmare. Which it said that people would even wake up with erections in the morning from a nightmare. I have not yet experienced anything like this yet usually when I wake up from a nightmare my heart is beating like crazy and my face is usually sweaty but it is still cool that people have different reaction from nightmares. One thing that I read in this is book that has me wondering the book said that everybody has a dream every day. The weird thing is there are times that I wake up in the morning and it seems like I did …show more content…
I feel like I experience stage one the most. For example, there is a bunch of times that I feel like I am falling in my dreams so I will jerk right off my bed or just start moving. Also, my girlfriend has told me when I sleep that I start twitching from my arm or leg she says I start shaking its rare though but it is cool how dreams will affect your own body at times. The main thing that caught my attention was that it said in the book that there are times where you dream the same thing over and over for the next couple of days depending on your emotions or daily events. I experienced this when my grandma pass away. I swear I dreamt about her for a week straight some were I was eating breakfast with her or just playing outside with her. This topic has made me realize how powerful and important the sleeping stages are to all of