[LoneDevil]

There are five stages of sleep, I will only go over the fifth stages, as the other four are relatively unimportant.
And are really just transitional phases to get to the fifth.

Now the fifth stage is called rem cycle.

Rem is short for rapid eye movement.
It's the stage in which memories of the day are recorded.
It only lasts for a short burst of time, but occurs multiple times throughout sleep.

Many psychologists also link it to that of defragmenting a computers hard drive.
Because it also sorts out your memories in the proper sections of the brain.
During this stage of sleep your dreams are that of what transpired earlier in the day, but in a weird way.
For instance, you might have seen a cat walk down the road, but in your dream you see a cat on a unicycle.
It's called rapid eye movement because during this stage you'll see the persons eyes moving rapidly (eye lids open but asleep.)

So to conclude this, sleep is important, with out it you can't retain the information from the day.

[chmod]

Sleep deprivation has also been linked to hallucinations, paranoia and other side effects. In short you deprive yourself of sleep you start to loose your grip on reality I always thought REM happened with the eyelids closed though

[Nailo]

was working all night i feel like shit now hahaah

[bluedog.tar.gz]

I hate sleeping, I hate waking up.
You know that feeling?

[LoneDevil]

Sleep deprivation has also been linked to hallucinations, paranoia and other side effects. In short you deprive yourself of sleep you start to loose your grip on reality I always thought REM happened with the eyelids closed though

No rem is with your eyelids open, however your eyes are rolled to the back of the head, making it so the observer only sees the milky white side.
Just look at it this way, if the eyelids were closed, how could the researcher see the movement?


@livefaster and bluedog...way to partially derail my thread brahs.

[chmod]

I always thought that you could see the movements through the eyelids as they are only relatively thin.

And now I've learned something

[LoneDevil]

I always thought that you could see the movements through the eyelids as they are only relatively thin.

And now I've learned something

Who said you couldn't tell sarcasm over the internet. lel

(But seriously I'm just stating what it basically says in my psychology book, didn't feel need to post source, because 1. I said it in my own words 2. I also dumbed it down greatly.)

[chmod]

It wasn't meant as sarcasm I was wrong and corrected therefore I learned something, to which I'm grateful.

[Coder-san]

And also these red eyes of mine. 2-3 hours of sleep makes you an Ameratsu user.

[Deque]

It was not long ago that I had so much sleep deprivation that one of my front teeth got kind of transparent and slowly turned black. (I only got 4-5 hours sleep every day for weeks -- real parents do not sleep, do they?)
I didn't connect these events first, but as soon as I got enough sleep the tooth turned to shining white again (pun intended). That was amazing.