What is "nondreaming"

Usage examples of "nondreaming".

nondreaming and dreaming sleep alternate in a regular cycle, which lasts about ninety minutes, with about the first sixty to seventy min­utes being nondreaming sleep, the last fifteen or twenty minutes being dreaming.

There is another kind of night terror, which tends to occur in nondreaming sleep but not in REM sleep.

If we measure the electrical patterns of a cat’s brain when the cat goes from nondreaming sleep to REM sleep, we see that the high-voltage slow electrical waves give way to low-voltage fast elec­trical activity.

The tantric systems of physiology that are important in Tibetan Bud­dhism recognize manifestations of subtle consciousness in deep, nondreaming sleep, and in other states including orgasm.

A theory of this system iden­tifies the following four states: the waking state, the dreaming sleep state, the nondreaming sleep state, and, finally, the orgasm.

Orgasm occurs in the waking state, and it can occur in dreaming, but it does not occur in nondreaming sleep.

In relation to the nondreaming sleep state, the dreaming state is understood to be somewhat more gross.

In other words, the deepest stage of nondreaming sleep, defined physiologically, is associated in our untrained subjects with very low levels of conscious­ness.

But it is said that the mental factor of sleep precedes the deep sleep state, meaning the nondreaming state, just as fear may proceed faint­ing without going into it.

Thus, analogously, in the nondreaming deep sleep state, the mental factor of sleep has already passed.