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Article: Dream sleep: a risk for heart patients? (REM sleep)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- February 6, 1993
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To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come ....
William Shakespeare wrote of the dark side of sleep in Hamlet. Now, a team of Iowa researchers suggests that the dreaming stage of sleep poses a particular peril for people with coronary artery disease.
Humans spend about one-third of their life in sleep. Despite the popularity of sleep, scientists know very little about the physiological changes that occur during slumber. They do know that people typically pass through repeated cycles consisting of several stages of deep sleep followed by a bout of REM sleep, named for the rapid eye movements that ...