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Re: What's up with restlessness?

Posted by permagrin on January 23, 2003 at 16:44:38:

In Reply to: Re: What's up with restlessness? posted by D. H. on January 23, 2003 at 15:57:23:

Okay... that "enough" thing was kind of what I was thinking, too. In fact, he can fall asleep without CPAP, sleep for an hour that way, wake up as if he is totally drunk, and think he got a good nap. It's bizarre. (I'm no longer going to allow those little naps because I know how bad they are for him, but that is the way he prefers to conduct his days if I'm not all over it.) So I think it is that his body/brain registers that he has 'rested', when in fact he has not, or that he has achieved some time in some level of sleep that has, in his estimation, bolstered his alertness, but not done him any other good. Do I understand correctly that each level of sleep is related to specific regeneration of neurons in very specific areas of the brain, and if you don't achieve a certain level of sleep, say REM as an example, then whatever regeneration *should* have occurred in REM has not taken place, and therefore, the sleep debt in that area continues and accumulates? If this is so, can anyone tell me where I might find information that would explain what is thought to be the relationship between certain (brain)functions and their corresponding sleep level? I've long suspected that Mike's physical disabilities relate to his inability to get REM sleep over the course of the last four years, and perhaps most acutely in the last year. I'd dearly love to be able to find some research that might confirm that.

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