REM sleep is involved in unlearning emotional events.

“REM is where much of the emotional reset occurs.”

“That REM is rich with all sorts of exploration of the emotional load of being chased, or the emotional load of having to take an exam the next day, or being late for something.”

“So REM sleep seems to be where we uncouple the potential for emotionality between various experiences.”

“It's more about unlearning of emotional events. And now we know why, because the chemicals available for really feeling those emotions are not present.”

“You've described it before as a sort of self generated therapy that occurs while we sleep. - Yeah, it's overnight therapy, you know, it's emotional first aid.”

“The second half of the night, being more emotional dreams and sort of the unpairing of the emotional load of our previous day and other experiences.”

“Certainly studies where people have been deprived of rapid eye movement sleep have shown that their ability to manage emotionally during the daytime is reduced.”

“And in that way, acts as a kind of scrubbing out or a therapy for your emotional state.”

“a specific stage of sleep called rapid eye movement or REM sleep is critical for removing the emotional content of our previous days memories and in doing so provides a sort of therapy within sleep that allows us to feel emotionally restored when we wake the next morning”

“REM sleep is this perfect condition for emotional overnight therapy where you can re activate and re sort of experience and reprocess those emotional memories but you're doing it in a neurochemically quote unquote safe environment that allows you to strip away the emotion from the memory”

“rapid eye movement sleep is a time in which we get a a sort of um therapy that is a disentangling of the emotional load of a given experience from The Experience”

“Rapid eye movement sleep is associated with learning.”

“REM sleep is the one that you're giving yourself every night when you go to sleep, which raises, I think, the other important question, which is how to get and how to know if you're getting the appropriate amount of REM sleep and slow wave sleep.”

“one of the principal functions of rapid eye movement sleep that we now have understood is that it seems to provide a form of overnight therapy that rem sleep is emotional first aid and it's during rem sleep that we take the emotional concerns and even sometimes in extreme examples some of the traumatic events that we've been experiencing and rem sleep almost acts like a nocturnal soothing bomb and it tries to take the sharp edges off those difficult experiences”

“REM sleep, we found all manner of different functions, one of which is emotional first-aid. It's incredible for palliative emotional benefit. It's not time that heals all wounds, but it's time during REM sleep that provides emotional convalescence.”

“REM sleep, we found all manner of different functions, one of which is emotional first-aid. It's incredible for palliative emotional benefit. It's not time that heals all wounds, but it's time during REM sleep that provides emotional convalescence.”

“right so rap and eye movement sleep is is incredibly important and Yoga Nidra AKA um nsdr I should say nsdr is a buildout from Yoga Nidra In fairness um I think is a super powerful technique and you know 10 minutes is pretty minor you know investment awesome”