over many years of observing my Wife, I cannot recall her in REM sleep since IBT but can remember her in this state often. I trained myself to respond to her frequent nighttime paralysis attacks, sometimes she would have multiple, which appear to have gone now also. She would wake me up with a stifled murmur as she panicked to get out of it. Then I would have trouble getting back to sleep, so would monitor her until I fell asleep.
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The NHS says the phenomenon happens when "parts of rapid eye movement (REM) occur while you're awake".
What the NHS says
On the NHS website it says: "REM is a stage of sleep when the brain is very active and dreams often occur and during this stage the body is unable to move, apart from the eyes and muscles used in breathing, possibly to stop you acting out your dreams and hurting yourself."
The terrifying condition which leaves people 'pinned to their bed'
It's pretty odd, but last night I had my first REM sleep since I began IBT. I also got to sleep past 7 hours, something I was having difficulty with before with IBT. Even as I continue to wake up to pee, I felt even more well-rested. This is just a day after I reported that I had been having sleep with no REM. Someone must be playing tricks on me.
My sleep app tells me I had two 20min sessions of REM sleep, at 3 and 5 am. Also logged 51% deep sleep, which meant that light sleep did not dominate.
It may just be that I ate 6 pcs. of Korean chicken feet with plenty rice (it was spicy). I also skipped my usual accompaniment of cooked leaf salad. But I also skipped my nightly supplement of niacinamide, aspirin, b1, b1, by, NAC, collagen hydrolysate, VCO, selenium, and just had a half (instead of 1) glass of milk of low fat milk with a tap of sugar.
But I had skipped my supps without this effect before. There was little protein in those chicken feet, but I had plenty of gelatin from the skin as well as the tendons and ligaments.
I'll have to see if I can repeat this tonight. It was my first time to eat a chicken feet dish I made myself. The Korean style is less involved as the Chinese style. That's why I got to make it.
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