How to Use rapid eye movement in a Sentence

rapid eye movement

noun
  • Vivid dreams tend to happen during the rapid eye movement phase of sleep.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Vivid dreams happen during the rapid eye movement phase of our sleep cycles.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In reality, your brain is filling in the gap caused by your rapid eye movements.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The deepest stage of sleep is known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • For deep, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, horses do lie down.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • It is called rapid eye movement sleep because the eyes move quickly during this phase even though the eyelids are closed.
    — Daniel Combs, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Dreams tend to occur during the rapid eye movement, or REM, phase of sleep.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
  • During a rapid eye movement, there are gaps in the visual information our eyes receive.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Drinkers had less time in a rapid eye movement (REM) cycle—a sleep stage with a slew of benefits.
    — Kristen Fischer, Health, 21 June 2024
  • Many sleep disorders, such as insomnia, are caused by a lack of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Acting out dreams marks a disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • It is called rapid eye movement sleep because the body is paralyzed to prevent injury while dreaming, but the eyes move quickly behind closed eyelids.
    — Daniel Combs, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The propagating wave sleep could be compared to the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage in humans.
    — Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Also, alcohol reduces rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which helps with brain function.
    — Sarah Klein, Health, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Just like humans, dogs go through sleep cycles, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is when the most vivid dreams happen.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Alcohol suppresses the critical phase of sleep known as rapid eye movement (REM), when dreams fire up.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2018
  • For the last hours of sleep, people usually go in and out of the fourth and last stage of the sleep cycle, known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 28 June 2024
  • When sleeping, the brain cycles through different stages, including light, deep and rapid eye movement, or REM.
    — Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The lightest of the four phases of sleep, known as N1 (for non-rapid eye movement stage one), can also yield profound cognitive benefits.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • More than that and the nap may cause grogginess associated with waking from rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep.
    — Alex Janin, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • In a part of the mouse brainstem, cells studded with this receptor were active during wakefulness and quiet during deep (non–rapid eye movement) sleep, the researchers found.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 28 Aug. 2019
  • A good night's sleep includes getting enough rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which the body needs for restoration, memory, learning, and mood.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Cycles of lighter sleep punctuated by bouts of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep follow, growing longer and longer throughout the night.
    — Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
  • And there’s the stress hormone cortisol, a major component in dream, or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, says Bryant.
    — Miriam Foley, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Dogs, like humans, go through several sleep cycles—wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-rapid-eye-movement sleep.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • For starters, airways will close the most during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a stage typically occurring in the morning.
    — Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In humans, sleep is punctuated by rapid eye movement (REM) sleep every 90 minutes.
    — David Eagleman, Time, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Sleep paralysis is caused by what appears to be a basic brain glitch at the interface between wakefulness and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
    — Baland Jalal, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
  • The brain cycles through different stages during sleep, including light and deep sleep and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, which is when dreaming occurs.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The most remarkable finding, Stephan says, is that these people showed pockets of arousal in the form of fast brain waves during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
    — Francine Russo, Scientific American, 7 June 2024

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