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

The band REM referenced the story of Little Black Sambo in the 1986 song " Begin the Begin :" " On Zenith, on the TV, tiger run around the tree.

The song was chosen by REM singer Michael Stipe.

" This song, along with REM cover " White Tornado " and Whirled Peas original " Loungitude " were featured on a compilation album of mainly songs originally by Replacements called " The Fans Hit Back " in 1994.

In 2004 they released their sophomore, critically acclaimed album Fall Back Open, which included a duet with Michael Stipe of REM, a long-time supporter of the band.

Upon entering the REM stage of sleep, minute amounts of DMT are most likely released into the bloodstream after one has fallen asleep.

" In 1990, Green released an EP called REM, this after the band R. E. M.

This study found that sleep improved memory retention of emotional text only during late sleep phase, which was primarily REM.

* REM, the name of an android that was a main character in the television series of Logan's Run

In 1953, REM sleep was discovered as distinct, and thus William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman reclassified sleep into four NREM stages and REM.

Furthermore, REM sleep was sometimes referred to as stage 5.

This started in the early 90s ' and was only met with a similar motivated competitor in 2004 called REM FM.

In 2009 REM FM was acquired and subsequently rebranded as Talk Radio Europe ( Talk Radio Europe ).

When REM sleep episodes were timed for their duration and subjects woken to make reports before major editing or forgetting could take place, it was determined that subjects accurately matched the length of time they judged the dream narrative to be ongoing to the length of REM sleep that preceded the awakening.

This close correlation of REM sleep and dream experience was the basis of the first series of reports describing the nature of dreaming: that it is a regular nightly, rather than occasional, phenomenon, and a high-frequency activity within each sleep period occurring at predictable intervals of approximately every 60 – 90 minutes in all humans throughout the life span.

Due to rapidly increasing knowledge about sleep in the 20th century, including the discovery of REM sleep and sleep apnea, the medical importance of sleep was recognized.

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.

The sentinel hypothesis of REM sleep was put forward by Frederick Snyder in 1966.

The phenomenon of REM sleep and its association with dreaming was discovered by Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman with assistance from William C. Dement, a medical student at the time, in 1952 during their tenures at the University of Chicago.

Press reports included rumours of offshore television stations and the brief success of the Dutch REM Island operation called Radio and TV Noordzee heightened the fear of the authorities that defacto unregulated broadcasting was becoming so entrenched due to its popularity that it would not be possible to stop it.

Parts of Def Leppard's live home video " In The Round, In Your Face " were filmed at the Omni in October 1988 and the REM concert film ' Road Movie ' was filmed at the Omni over three nights in November 1995.

This was found through a study involving subjects taking naps over specific intervals of time and being forcefully awakened, their sleep was separated into naps including only REM sleep and only NREM sleep using polysomnography.

The UK REM ( not to be confused with the contemporaneous American band of the same name ) was conceived primarily as a live band and never recorded an album, although poor-quality tapes of live concerts in France survive.

In one session, he awakened a subject who was wailing and crying out during REM and confirmed his suspicion that dreaming was occurring.

When REM sleep episodes were timed for their duration and subjects awakened to make reports before major editing or forgetting could take place, it was determined that subjects accurately matched the length of time they judged the dream narrative to occupy with the length of REM sleep that preceded the awakening.

The play, written by Thoron ( book, lyrics ) and Sobule ( music ) and illustrated in a graphic novella by Hanrahan, tells the story of a fierce young woman, Sara ( a musician ) and her father Arvin, a neuroscientist, who relocates his family from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia to study REM sleep in the platypus, a unique species native to Australia.

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

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.

* REM World, a fantasy / science fiction novel by Rodman Philbrick

* 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.

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.

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 ".