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All right. I'm back again. Didn't we just meet yesterday?

Well, I'm back today for another presentation.

Today we're going to talk about how to get more REM sleep.

Normally a person will go through 90 minutes cycles of sleep, okay?

Between four and six of these cycles with different levels or stages.

More deeper levels of sleep that's called non-REM, and then you have a superficial level of sleep, which is called REM.

Now the non-REM sleep, which is the deeper delta wave sleep, occurs more

in the first half of the sleep. And this is where you get body repair, you get detoxification,

you get rejuvenation, you get more growth hormone stimulation. But then you have something

called REM sleep. Okay, what is REM sleep? Rem is the more superficial

sleep. It's the second half of your sleep. And this is where most people have the problem. So most

people get the first part of the sleep, but they're not getting that second half. They're not getting

that full REM sleep. What's very interesting about REM sleep is that

the weight patterns or the brain activity is almost identical to when you're awake, but you're actually

in this sleep state. Now, you would think if the brain activity is very similar to being awake,

and the REM sleep is actually using sometimes even more energy than the awake state.

You might wake up from this dream state actually exhausted and feeling like, wow, I just ran a marathon.

Well, that's because you did.

Your brain in that REM state has actually used more energy, which is pretty wild.

But here's another interesting thing about the REM stage. You actually get more energy, which is pretty wild. But here's another interesting

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