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rapid eye movement sleep

unique phase of sleep in mammals and birds, characterized by random/rapid movement of the eyes
Class type of: sleep Q211402

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
sleep stage
Subclass of
sleep[3]
Has effect
rapid eye movement[5]
Named after
rapid eye movement[2]
Opposite of
non-rapid eye movement sleep[4]
P14541
3MIqnF[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en dream sleep en REMS en Sleep, REM en REM en REM sleep en paradoxical sleep en desynchronized sleep en PS en rapid eye movement sleep en Rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep ar نوم حركة العين السريعة cs REM fáze spánku cs REM fáze da REM-søvn da REM da Rapid Eye Movement de Desynchronisierter Schlaf de SOREM de REM-Schlaf de REM-Phase
🔖 Identifiers · 15
GND ID
4124052-2
OpenAlex ID
C2779213384
BNCF Thesaurus ID
72038
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.821, 573.868
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
26483
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/rapid-eye-movement-sleep
Freebase ID
/m/016bdq
Harper's tag
rapid-eye-movement-sleep
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
rapid-eye-movement-sleep
MeSH descriptor ID
D012895
MeSH tree code
F02.830.855.796.671, G11.561.803.754.671
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779213384
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ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/rapid-eye-movement-sleep, medicine-and-dentistry/rapid-eye-movement-sleep, neuroscience/rapid-eye-movement-sleep, social-sciences/rapid-eye-movement-sleep, biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/rem-sleep, immunology-and-microbiology/rem-sleep, psychology/rem-sleep
Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID
rem-sleep
YSO ID
10269

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Named after 1
R.E.M
Opposite of 1
non-rapid eye movement sleep
Subclass of 1
sleep
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non-rapid eye movement sleep
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Summary

rapid eye movement sleep is a sleep stage[1].

Body

Influence

Things named for rapid eye movement sleep include R.E.M[7], a musical work/composition[8].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include R.E.M[7], a musical work/composition[8].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [8] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · Neo-Jay · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', '
    Named after → rapid eye movement
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Named after: rapid eye movement"
  2. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → rapid-eye-movement-sleep
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: rapid-eye-movement-sleep, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289953575|rapid eye movement sleep (#289953575)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/ca"
  3. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3MIqnF
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → sleep
    Opposite of → non-rapid eye movement sleep
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ YSO ID: 10269, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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