REM Sleep

How the amount of REM sleep you get can change. It’s the time of night where most likely you would be dreaming. People believe one reason as a child you have a higher amount of dreams as a kid because as a child you get more REM sleep. REM sleep is part of a cycle of how you sleep so say you were woken up in the middle of the night during REM sleep you might ruin that cycle. When we are sleeping and specifically in REM sleep our brains are reorganizing itself and it is also giving itself a deep clean. There are also other things that can affect how you sleep at night like sleep behavior disorder, basically during their dreams when they are supposed to be resting there body and dreaming should be a brain activity. People with the sleep behavior

As you go on your REM sleep changes and makes it so you are now not in as much of a deep sleep as you use to be. When you are a baby you sleep for a lot longer than you do when your and adult. When you are a baby you sleep for 16 to 18 hour, when you are in school age you need a bout 9.5 hours and when you are and adult all you need is 7 to 9 hours it’s a big change over the years how much sleep you need to function but in the beginning if you don’t sleep more maybe your brain won’t develop

Sleep Deprivation Can Change Your Genes. Blood samples taken after just one week of getting fewer than six hours of sleep a night showed changes to more than 700 genes due to sleep deprivation alone, according to the study. Researchers don’t entirely understand the persona of each of these genes and what the changes may mean, Bloomberg reported, but at least some affect our inflammatory, immune and stress responses, researchers