Thread: Rapid eye movement (REM) is the stage of sleep characterized by rapid saccadic movements of the eyes. During this stage, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours. Most of the vividly recalled dreams occur during REM sleep... 
According to a new study by researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel, each flick of the eye that occurs during REM sleep accompanies the introduction of a new image in our dream, with the movement essentially acting like a reset function between individual dream snapshots...
Now here is something weird. My wife told me, and since then other people confirmed it, that when I go into deep thinking mode, my eyes, which are opened at the time, flicker as if I am in the REM phase...Apparently it looks scary...
Does anyone else "thinks" 🙂 like this? I quickly scanned the net for anything about "rem while awake" but couldn't find any info about this kind of weirdness...
Maybe this is what allows me to keep all this crap that I keep in my head and to cross reference it and analyze it without using any tools...Don't know...Lucid thinking 🙂 Cool...
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