Dreams and Sleep Quality: Finding the Best Anti-Snoring Device

Are you restless during sleep at night? Do you often wake up at night due to bad dreams or have difficulty in falling asleep? Are you anxious before you sleep? There are a variety of issues that can hamper proper and restful sleep at night, apart from snoring.

According to University of Arizona clinical professor of medicine and dream specialist, Rubin Naiman, PhD, the two key components of good sleep quality are non-REM and REM sleep.  Unfortunately, sleep-tracking technology cannot measure rapid eye movement or REM sleep.  This is the stage most closely associated with dreaming.  As a result, we can’t always rely on device data because it only provides an incomplete picture of the quality of sleep we’re actually getting.

Naiman went on to say that years of data research suggests that “as a culture, we are at least as dream-deprived as we are sleep-deprived.”  As it turns out, this can be a problem.  In a comprehensive review of data that Naiman published in the “Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences”, he concludes that dream loss may be at the root of sleep loss-related health concerns.  These concerns include compromised memory as well as the correlation between anxiety and depression.