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Paradoxical sleep

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of REM sleep. uncountable
  2. 2
    a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep wordnet

Etymology

So called because of the similarity of the brain waves to those during waking life.

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