* " It's the End of the World as We Know It ( And I Feel Fine )", an REM song ( 1987 )

Philbrick has also written the cyberpunk dystopian novel The Last Book in the Universe and the science fantasy REM World.

* Architectural Energy Corporation, Makers of REM / Rate Home Energy Rating Software for calculating a HERS index

In a normal sleep cycle, you may experience REM sleep every 1 1 / 2 to 2 hours every night.

Sleep phase alarm clocks use accelerometric sensors to detect movement of a sleeper, so that it can wake the person when he / she is not in REM phase, therefore awakes more easily.

Hendrik Bouman has received many awards for his 25 recordings of which there are more than 45 re-editions, for DGG / Archiv, EMI, REM / Radio Canada, Baroque-Nouveau, notably: the Edison Prize ( Netherlands ), 3 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Artist of the Year by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie and the career Prize for Young Artists from the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia ( Germany ), Le Grand Prix National du Disque, 6 Diapason d ’ Or, Répertoire Recommandé, 9-Repertoire ; Diapason 5 ( France ), and the Early Music Award, Gramophone Award ( England ).

The normal sleep / wake cycle in adults is divided into REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep, non-REM ( NREM ) sleep, and consciousness.

During REM sleep in particular, muscle tone of the throat and neck, as well as the vast majority of all skeletal muscles, is almost completely attenuated, allowing the tongue and soft palate / oropharynx to relax, and in the case of sleep apnea, to impede the flow of air to a degree ranging from light snoring to complete collapse.

compared memory retention for emotional versus neutral text over two instances ; early sleep that is dominated by SWS and late sleep that is dominated by REM phase.

* Rapid Eye Mount, a fast reacting telescope operated for INAF by the REM Team, located in the La Silla

REM sleep is turned on by acetylcholine secretion and is inhibited by neurons that secrete serotonin.

Rapid eye movement ( sleep ) | REM sleep ; EEG highlighted by red box ; eye movements highlighted by red line.

However, some researchers consider that NDEs are actually REM intrusions triggered in the brain by traumatic events like cardiac arrest.

* September 4 – The discovery of REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.

The REM song ( Don't Go Back To ) Rockville released in 1984 was written by Mike Mills about not wanting his girlfriend to return to Rockville, Maryland.

REM is most important for health, followed by stage 2.

REM sleep is revealed by continuous movements of the eyes during sleep.

However, research by Mark Solms suggests that dreams are generated in the forebrain, and that REM sleep and dreaming are not directly related.

Combining Hobson's activation synthesis hypothesis with Solms ' findings, the continual-activation theory of dreaming presented by Jie Zhang proposes that dreaming is a result of brain activation and synthesis ; at the same time, dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.

This is consistent with symptoms such as insomnia and REM sleep disturbances that are reported by patients with Parkinson's disease.

The Polysomnogram ( PSG ) picture of this disease is characterized by an inability to generate physiological sleep ( key features are the suppression of the hallmarks of stage 2 non-REM sleep: spindles and K complexes ) and by the emergence of REM sleep without atonia.

Electroencephalography ( EEG ) in one case was dominated by " wakefulness " and “ subwakefulness ” states alternating or intermingled with short (< 1 min ) atypical REM sleep phases, characterized by a loss of muscle atonia.

It is proposed that REM sleep would add creativity by allowing " neocortical structures to reorganize associative hierarchies, in which information from the hippocampus would be reinterpreted in relation to previous semantic representations or nodes.

Rapid eye movement sleep ( REM sleep ) is a normal stage of sleep characterized by the rapid and random movement of the eyes.

Intimately related to views on REM function in memory consolidation, Mitchison and Crick have proposed that by virtue of its inherent spontaneous activity, the function of REM sleep " is to remove certain undesirable modes of interaction in networks of cells in the cerebral cortex ", which process they characterize as " unlearning ".

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons ' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali ( 1985 ), winner of World Fantasy Award.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978.

In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.

One spin-off of a now-defunct Nomic ( Nomic World ) is the Fantasy Rules Committee, which adds every legal rule submitted by a player to the ruleset until the players run out of ideas, after which all the " fantasy rules " are repealed and the game begins again.

* Origins, a fantasy novel in the Fourth World series by Kate Thompson

There are national awards, like Canada's Aurora Award, regional awards, like the Endeavour Award presented at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award for fantasy.

Written by Basic Role-Playing and RuneQuest author Steve Perrin, Superworld began as one third of the Worlds of Wonder product, which also included a generic fantasy setting, " Magic World ", and a generic science fiction setting, " Future World ", all using the same core Basic Role-Playing rules.

The books have profoundly influenced adult and children's fantasy literature written since World War II.

* Thieves ' World, a shared world fantasy book series

These novels — including The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End — have been credited as important milestones in the history of fantasy fiction, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, or the future ( as Morris did in News from Nowhere ), Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented fantasy world.

The 2000 AD series Finn, begun the year after Crisis was cancelled, continued the adventures of the character from Third World War, though with more of a fantasy emphasis.

The Eye of the World ( abbreviated as tEotW or EotW by fans ) is the first book of The Wheel of Time ( WoT ) fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan.

In 1976, he received the World Science Fiction Society's Gandalf Grand Master award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing ; he was designated a SFWA Grandmaster in 1979.

Its children's programming featured many cartoons and some live-action series ( particularly fantasy action programs ) including Power Rangers ( currently airing on Nickelodeon ), Bobby's World, X-Men, The Tick, Eerie, Indiana and Goosebumps.

The Flanaess is the eastern part of the continent of Oerik, one of the four continents of the fictional world of Oerth in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.

Its swashbuckling flavor is very different from that of the " Known World ", closer in atmosphere to that of the Age of Exploration than the fantasy middle-ages / renaissance tone of the Known World.

Recently, Cavazzano illustrated the epic Disney fantasy comic World of the Dragonlords, which was written by Byron Erickson.

The children's fantasy series " The Spiderwick Chronicles ", by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, includes will o ' the wisps ; they are listed in " Arthur Spiderwick's Guide to the Fantastical World Around You.

* Fourth World, the feudal fantasy land shared by the teenage protagonists of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures