Posted by ronaldo on December 17, 2006, at 11:53:36
In reply to manipulating my REM sleep, posted by linkadge on December 17, 2006, at 11:19:11
Hi Linkadge,
Don't we sleep in approx. 4 hour cycles? If so you would have to get up three times in the night to take a tablet. How quick acting are these tablets: anti/cholinergic agents? They would have to act within an hour or two to achieve the desired effect. Personally it all sounds a bit Heath-Robinson to me and I don't think you would get it to work. There must be easier ways?
.....ronaldo
> So, I hear that in depressed patients REM sleep occurs too early on in sleep, and that in normal patients it occurs more frequently towards the latter half of sleep.
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> So, if I took an anticholinergic agent right before bedtime, to reduce REM sleep. Then set my alarm to wake up half way through the night to take a cholinergic agent to induce REM sleep (thus pulling my REM sleep forward), could this improve mood?
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