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I am in rehabilitation stage and I am wondering if it is ok for me to sleep 4hours get up go to bathroom and go back to sleep another 4 hours?I am worried about the REM sleep being disturbed?I drink so much water in the day and evening that I always have to get up and use RRoom.I am still getting 8 hours of sleep but the REM is disturbed.Is this ok?Any suggestions is appreciated.:grouphug:

Mia if you can get 8 hours in that is GREAT

I am happy with 6 straight or 5. The worst is when I wake up at 2 or 3 am and don't get back.

I don't know about the distrubed REM, but it seems to me if you can get back to sleep that's HUGE.

Just my 3 cents

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Originally Posted by MiaVita2012 (Post 986325)

Normal sleep patters will alternate between REM and non-REM sleep throughout the night; you are probably waking up following a REM sleep cycle,and the fact that you are able to return to sleep just means the cycle of REM/non-rem is continuing. Since you are getting 8 hours you should be fine.

Good article with video clip on sleep patters from Harvard Medical School:

http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/...terns-rem-nrem