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Stages of Sleep
![A typical night's sleep](../../../../../../../../../figures.boundless-cdn.com/31590/full/uaksaswqszk1r8u7utvk.jpg)
A typical night's sleep
This sample hypnogram (EEG of sleep) shows how the proportion of the sleep cycle spent in REM sleep increases with each subsequent cycle over the course of a night. (Note that stages 3 and 4 are now considered to be one stage, stage 3.)
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