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rapid eye move·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REMnoun

    a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep

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  1. rapid eye movementnoun

    Rapid movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rapid eye movement in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rapid eye movement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of rapid eye movement in a Sentence

  1. Rebecca Robbins:

    It continues to pull you out of rapid eye movement and the deeper stages of sleep, causing you to wake up not feeling restored.

  2. Joshua Tal:

    Dreams do usually incorporate things that happened during the day, leading some researchers to hypothesize that dreams and rapid eye movement sleep is essential for memory consolidation and cognitive rejuvenation, nightmares are the mind’s attempts at making sense of these events, by replaying them in images during sleep.


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