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In reality, REM sleep involves a mix of activity (bursts of eye movement and brain activity similar to alpha waves) and inactivity (body paralysis as the brain stem prevents cortex activity from reaching the rest of the body). This activity-paralysis mix gives REM sleep its other name: paradoxical sleep. Adults tend to spend about 20 to 25 percent of an average night in REM sleep. A person would be more likely to be exhausted by too little REM sleep than by too much.

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