Often called a nightmare, isolated sleep paralysis is not considered a sleep disorder (as when it occurs with narcolepsy), but rather an extremely disconcerting intrusion of the atonia, or paralysis, of REM sleep carried over into your waking state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Kinosian: A Short Guide To Understanding Your Nightmares] Reference

The nature of atonia in sleep continues to be enigmatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The muscle atonia prevents individuals from physically carrying out their dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Paradoxical sleep (PS) or REM sleep is characterized by cortical activation, rapid eye movements and muscle atonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

One of the main characteristics of the REM stage, muscle atonia, is the temporary paralyzation of skeletal muscle (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

For instance, when humans dream that they are running, they are unable to actually run in reality because of muscle atonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

The neural structures responsible for muscle atonia are located in the dorsolateral portions of the pons located in the brainstem (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

That is, does the atonia in REM sleep provide a utility to help restore the mechanobiology and respective diurnal intervertebral disc hydraulic loss?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Sleep debt] Reference

Soja PJ, Morales FR (1989) Evidence that glycine mediates the postsynaptic potentials that inhibit lumbar motoneurons during the atonia of active sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

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In addition, we found a large number of GABAergic PS-on neurons in the vlPAG / dDPMe region and the medullary reticular nuclei known to generate muscle atonia during PS.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

During REM sleep, neural activities generating muscle atonia descend through the medulla and spinal cord, and inhibit the motorneurons in the brainstem and spinal cord (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

In fact, the cause of sleep paralysis is "a marked dissociation between level of alertness and muscle atonia that often occurs in SOREM (sleep onset - REM) sleep episodes (1).".    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

Sastre JP, Kanamori N, Jouvet M (1981) State-specific neurones in the ponto-medullary reticular formation with special reference to the postural atonia during paradoxical sleep in the cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The death may be caused by the extreme muscle atonia during Sleep Paralysis, which is so severe that even the cardiac muscles and the diaghragm paralyze I have been trying to figure out what was going on in my sleep untill i read this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference

(Dahlitz) This transitional state between REM sleep and wakefulness causes the individual to have total muscle atonia and consciousness, and commonly the individual hears vibrating, humming, or buzzing noises (as noted by some of the responses) (Parker).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference

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(rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

They induce muscle atonia and sensory inhibition via direct excitatory projections to the glycinergic / GABAergic neurons localized in the medullary ventral reticular nuclei (GiA, GiV.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The episodes of PS occurring after Mus and saline injections were similarly characterized by a cortical EEG desynchronization combined with a muscle atonia and rapid eyes and vibrissae movements (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference