03-05-2019, 07:32 PM
R.E.M. Causing Heavy Eyes??
Anyone experience/heard of the theory that R.E.M. sleep can cause heavy eyes?
To explain/clarify: Using my own experience, went 12-15 years with untreated sleep apnea (and thus never really experiencing dreams/REM sleep). Now using CPAP machine and sleeping/dreaming like crazy but experiencing what I call heavy eyes when waking up and throughout the day. Feel fine otherwise. not fatigued at all. Just feel like I want/need to close my eyes all day long.
Read something (alas online) that eye movement during REM sleep could be 'fatiguing' my eyes and since eye movement is not something i have experienced in years, maybe my eyes just are not use to it?
thoughts???
To explain/clarify: Using my own experience, went 12-15 years with untreated sleep apnea (and thus never really experiencing dreams/REM sleep). Now using CPAP machine and sleeping/dreaming like crazy but experiencing what I call heavy eyes when waking up and throughout the day. Feel fine otherwise. not fatigued at all. Just feel like I want/need to close my eyes all day long.
Read something (alas online) that eye movement during REM sleep could be 'fatiguing' my eyes and since eye movement is not something i have experienced in years, maybe my eyes just are not use to it?
thoughts???