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Recent Examples of rapid eye movement
While both species experience slow-wave and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, dogs spend only around 10 percent of their rest in REM, compared to humans’ 25 percent.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2025
Deep sleep and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) are especially crucial for memory, emotional regulation, and recovery.
—Deanna Taylor, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The lightest of the four phases of sleep, known as N1 (for non-rapid eye movement stage one), can also yield profound cognitive benefits.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
The stimulation can include rapid eye movements, during which a person tracks the movements of a finger, ball, or some sort of stimulus with their eyes, tapping, or auditory cues.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 23 June 2025
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2025
Deep sleep and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) are especially crucial for memory, emotional regulation, and recovery.
—Deanna Taylor, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The lightest of the four phases of sleep, known as N1 (for non-rapid eye movement stage one), can also yield profound cognitive benefits.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
The stimulation can include rapid eye movements, during which a person tracks the movements of a finger, ball, or some sort of stimulus with their eyes, tapping, or auditory cues.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapid eye movement
dreaming
Noun
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After decades of dreaming, planning and building, the South Shore Line’s West Lake Corridor rail service will finally begin March 31.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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Those plays had Green dreaming of what could be if – or when – Steph Curry returns from his bout with runner’s knee.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Rapid eye movement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapid%20eye%20movement. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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