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The first night effect: an EEG study of sleep.

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The electroencephalographic records from 43 subjects who slept for four consecutive nights in a laboratory environment showed that the first night of laboratory sleep contains more awake periods and less Stage I-rapid eye movement sleep.
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The electroencephalographic records from 43 subjects who slept for four consecutive nights in a laboratory environment were studied in an effort to describe the First Night Effect. These records showed that the first night of laboratory sleep contains more awake periods and less Stage I-rapid eye movement sleep. There is a delay in the onset of Stages IV and I-REM and the sleep is more changeable. These effects rapidly adapt out by the second night of sleep.

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Chapter 2 - Normal Human Sleep : An Overview

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Cyclic variations in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility, and dreaming.

TL;DR: Records from a large number of nights in single individuals indicated that some could maintain a very striking regularity in their sleep pattern from night to night, and that body movement, after rising to a peak, dropped sharply at the onset of rapid eye movements and rebounded abruptly as the eye movements ceased.
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Sleep patterns in young adults: an eeg study.

TL;DR: EEG sleep stages do not appear in any consistent temporal sequence from night to night in a given subject nor in a group of subjects, and the stage change was usually smooth, moving from one stage to the next when sleep was deepening, but less smooth, often “jumping”.
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Sleep patterns in the young adult female: An EEG study

TL;DR: Additional support was found for the hypothesis that an individual spends a characteristic mount of time in each sleep stage, and stage changes were usually smooth, moving from one stage to the next when sleep was deepening, but less smooth during arousal from deeper levels.
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