Chapter
The Role of REM Sleep in Processing Trauma
1:41:22 - 1:50:57 (09:35)
The absence of norepinephrine during REM sleep allows for the divorce of highly activated emotions from cognitive memory, leading to adaptive and non-emotional recollection of traumatic memories.
Clips
Researchers found that rehearsing a specific sound or smell before going to sleep can help to cue a person to their repeated nightmare during REM sleep.
1:41:22 - 1:42:58 (01:35)
Nightmares
Summary
Researchers found that rehearsing a specific sound or smell before going to sleep can help to cue a person to their repeated nightmare during REM sleep. The sound or smell can then be used to wake the person up and help them avoid the nightmare.
ChapterThe Role of REM Sleep in Processing Trauma
EpisodeDr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State
PodcastHuberman Lab
REM sleep serves to reinforce and in fact amplify the emotions because your emotional system is up, locus coeruleus is high, re-sewing in every night the emotionality of those memories and with the memory itself.
1:42:58 - 1:50:57 (07:59)
Science/Tech
Summary
REM sleep serves to reinforce and in fact amplify the emotions because your emotional system is up, locus coeruleus is high, re-sewing in every night the emotionality of those memories and with the memory itself.