What percentage of sleep should be REM light and deep?

How much deep sleep do you need? You spend roughly 75 percent of your night in non-REM sleep and the other 25 percent in REM sleep. Of this, around 13 to 23 percent of your total sleep is deep sleep.

How much sleep does a narcoleptic need?

In addition to any of the typical narcolepsy symptoms, people with secondary narcolepsy also have severe neurological problems and require large amounts (>10 hours) of sleep. To understand the symptoms of narcolepsy, it helps to first understand how sleep happens normally.

How much of sleep is spent in deep sleep?

In healthy adults, about 13 to 23 percent of your sleep is deep sleep. So if you sleep for 8 hours a night, that’s roughly 62 to 110 minutes. However, as you get older you require less deep sleep.

What stage of sleep does narcolepsy occur?

Dreams occur during REM sleep, and the brain keeps muscles limp during this sleep stage, which prevents people from acting out their dreams. People with narcolepsy frequently enter REM sleep rapidly, within 15 minutes of falling asleep.

How much light sleep is normal?

On average, light sleep will take up about 50 to 60 percent or more of your night. “Whether you get more or less light sleep isn’t really going to affect how you feel too much, because it’s just whatever time is left that’s not spent in deep sleep or REM,” says Grandner. “It’s sort of the remainder.”

How often should a person with narcolepsy nap?

You’ll be asked to take four or five naps, each nap two hours apart. Specialists will observe your sleep patterns. People who have narcolepsy fall asleep easily and enter into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep quickly.

Do people with narcolepsy need naps?

Most people with narcolepsy find a brief nap refreshing, with improved alertness for one to three hours afterwards. Naps should be limited to 15–20 minutes, as it can be difficult to wake from the deep sleep of a long nap, and an extended nap in the afternoon may make it harder to fall asleep at night.

How much time should you spend in light sleep?

Do people with narcolepsy have more REM sleep?

REM sleep is typically when most dreaming happens. REM sleep can occur at any time of the day in people with narcolepsy. People with narcolepsy often transition quickly to REM sleep, usually within 15 minutes of falling asleep.

Is narcolepsy a REM sleep disorder?

Since the discovery of sleep onset REM periods (SOREMPs) in narcoleptic patients, narcolepsy has often been regarded as a disorder of REM sleep generation: REM sleep intrudes in active wake or at sleep onset, resulting in cataplexy, sleep paralysis, or hypnagogic hallucinations.