I think this started for me a few years ago: I seem to wake up every 1.5 hrs or so. Usually I pee, just to make sure that bladder pressure won't wake me later, and fall back to sleep. I almost always wake up from a dream, but not from some dream action waking me, so I'm obviously getting REM time.
A paper I read recently mentioned that sleep cycles through its stages, including REM, approximately every 90 minutes, which matches my present waking cycle. I was wondering if other people suffer from this, making it an ME symptom, or if anyone knows what the cause is. My first assumption is that ME is altering the glial cells in a way that is causing this improper switch from repeating the cycle to waking instead.
A paper I read recently mentioned that sleep cycles through its stages, including REM, approximately every 90 minutes, which matches my present waking cycle. I was wondering if other people suffer from this, making it an ME symptom, or if anyone knows what the cause is. My first assumption is that ME is altering the glial cells in a way that is causing this improper switch from repeating the cycle to waking instead.