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The sleep medicine specialist said if we want to avoid waking up exhausted, we should aim to finish our nap at stage 2 or ‘non-REM’. This stage, usually entered within the first 30–40 ...

Those who napped were found to be better at solving the problems that had stumped them the first time around, and the amount of REM sleep they had was associated with the likelihood of solving these ...

Furthermore, animal sleep-wake states are generally scored as only wake, rapid eye movement (REM) non-REM (NREM), and stages within NREM are not further delineated as they are in humans. Moreover, the ...