Baby having rapid eye movement (REM) sleep by Sergey Egorov

REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM are the two types of sleep. REM sleep is very light. A baby may twitch, smile, or even coo during REM sleep; it's also the stage where dreaming occurs.
From Wikipedia: A newborn baby spends more than 80% of total sleep time in REM. During REM, the summed activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the phenomenon is often called paradoxical sleep. This means that there are no dominating brain waves during REM sleep.

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[segorov]

the best joint in the world - breast milk :)

[Spacewookie2000]

The smile at 1:40 made me smile.

[travmanx]

Not a good cheeks to jaw ratio...

[amyleerobpattinson]

That's not REM

[choirguy210]

another human brain efficiently working, this is beautiful.. I wonder what he is dreaming of, boobies?

[DaRkTyNaN]

2:00 he made a farting sound!

[Chewybrocoli]

I dont get REM movement when I go to bed.

I get RHM, Rapid hand movement. lol

[cHristoPPer101]

@travmanx Hahahaha

[adfadfewfrewafawefaw]

cutie

[admitou62]

oh how cute!!

[il0vemac143]

im sooo happy i found this video, im a first time mom & my daughter is 3 weeks old and does the same extact thing in her sleep & it freaked me out!!! i thought something was really wrong with her!! Well thank god its normal & theres nothing for me to worry about, even thou i read arcticals a million times saying the same thing i still felt like hje movements where different untill i saw this video & there the same!! Thanks =)

[1234tirion]

eww... I do that in my sleep... D:

[cellandmolecular]

first, cute baby

second, I don't think this is REM sleep at all. During REM sleep there is a marked loss in muscle tone-- ie. your body's muscles go limp

Throughout the video you see the baby's fingers moving, the baby smiling and a whole bunch of movement that doesn't occur without some sort of muscle tone