Dr. Michael Grandner

But it may change how I speak or what my body language is going to look like or how much I choose to ramble when I tell these stories, like these sorts of things.

Dreaming is about, I think, it's about taking the actual written words on the page of life and sorting through those connections and sorting through those unspoken and details that don't actually exist but do and inform our life.

So dreams are the difference, I think, between memory and experience.

Yeah.

Where it's, it's a difference between what you did and who you are.

Like the dreams are what sort of make you that person who reacts to things based on your own history that, that forms those connections.

But I don't know that that's my, that's my ramble of, of what I think

That is one of, sleep apnea is one of the few things that can artificially, reliably, dramatically reduce your slow wave deep sleep.

Because you can't detach because your bodies keep trying to get your attention.

The other thing it does is it dramatically increases, it can dramatically increase stage one.

And it can also, because your sleep is more shallow and you have more of these arousals and awaken, even if you don't wake up all the way, your brain is still sort of moving around.

The other thing it can do, it can dramatically reduce your REM sleep.

Because remember what I said about muscles and REM sleep, even your respiratory muscles get weaker.

That's why snoring is worse than REM and, or worse at the end of the night.

Cause you have more REM at the end of the night.

So if you're, if you're already in a floppy tube, trying to breathe out of this floppy tube, that's already having an issue.

And then you make the muscles go extra limp.

Snoring is going to get worse.

So you're going to have more awakenings out of REM.

You're going to have less deep sleep and your sleep system more shallow overall.