Hi All-- We're covering the states of consciousness material in my gen psych class and we watched the Scientific American video called "What's in a Dream." In it, researchers talk about the impact on learning and memory for both REM and NREM sleep deprivation. In it, the video shoes researchers waking students in a sleep lab to deprive them of either 2 REM or 2 deep sleep NREM episodes. After the video, a student had a question I didn't know how to answer. What happens after you wake someone up to deprive him/her of stage 4 NREM)? Do they, [after you wake them and keep them awake for 5 minutes] , go back into stage 3 or 4, or do they begin the stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, stage, 4, REM cycle all over again? The student had a similar question for REM sleep deprivation -- after interrupting their REM sleep for 5 minutes, what sleep stage does the person begin with?
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