Bhavin Patel

Professor Maria Starling

Informative Speech Outline
Mon-Wed1:00pm-2:30pm
April 18, 2016
Informative Speech Outline: REM Sleeping
Purpose: After listening to this Informative speech, my audience will have a clear and full
understanding of what REM Sleeping is, why it occurs, when it occurs, etc.
Introduction:
1. Hook: Have you ever had those dreams that felt to last forever, dreams that woke you up
because you felt you jumped from a high area. Dreams of falling are a sign of fear, which
is actually one of the three types of dreams.
2. Thesis: REM (stands for rapid eye movement) is the deepest stage in our sleep. Rem
sleep as we define it is simply dreaming, and in that there are three types of dreams,
falling dreams, flying dreams, and naked dreams. (Manoach, Dara S., and Robert
Stickgold. "Why Sleep?").
A. Meaning: Falling dreams are said to indicate insecurity. Flying dreams are
said to indicate felling in control or on top of a situation. The naked dreams
are to indicate that you are ashamed of something or that you have something
to hide.
Body:

1. Duration: REM stage usually occurs more than once in our sleep. The first time we
go through this stage it lasts around 10 minutes and will get longer and longer as we
get our later REM stages. The longest a REM stage lasts is around 2 hours. Kids 1-4
years old usually spend 80% of their sleep in the REM stage, and adults spend around
only 20%-25% in the stage.
2. Memories: Dreams may be one way that the brain consolidates memories. During
this stage of our sleep we dream of abstract things, and this helps consolidate our long
term memory.
A. This memory consolidation mostly occurs in your falling dreams. For
example, if you dream to be trapped in a maze and you have to try to get out
of it, the decisions you make and the fear you feel helps improve your
memory.
3. Subconscious: There is an idea about subconscious, a factor of behavior in your
dreams.
A. Three levels of awareness: The three levels of awareness are conscious,
preconscious, and subconscious.
a. The conscious state of awareness deals with actions and thoughts
that the person is aware of.
b. The preconscious state deals with a persons memory and this is
the state that the consolidation of memory occur.
c. The subconscious is the factor that analyzes the dreams and so
without this stage you would not be able to dream. This also
consists of fears, doubts, and the emotional side of the dream.
4. Breathing: When we are in the REM stage of our sleep our breathing becomes very
flat and empty, irregular.
5. Muscles: All of our muscles become paralyzed for the short amount of time that we
are in this stage of sleep.

6. Eye Movement: Our eyes start to move very fast side to side. And this is also the
stage of dreams that we actually remember.
7. Disturbance: If you are disturbed by a noise during this stage your brain will merge
it in to your dream. For example if you are disturbed by an alarm you will incorporate
it into your dream.
8. Sleep Talking: Sleep talking is also known as somniloquy. When you sleep talk
you mumble, laugh, groan, and wistle.
9. When do you not experience REM stage of sleep: Well, the official answer is
when you are dead, this answer is given because we have not found a case among
humans who has not experience this stage in their sleep.
Conclusion:
1. Definition: In conclusion dreams can be defined as a reflection of inner feelings, such as,
anger, desires negative thoughts, fear that go into three categories; Falling dreams, Flying
dreams, Naked dreams (Manoach, Dara S., and Robert Stickgold. "Why Sleep?").

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