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After I pull all-nighters, my eyes seem to force REM to happen when I close them for sleep, to the point that I have to re-open them to still the dizziness caused by the darkness spinning. This happens frequently over the course of a semester. Is this actually REM? Or something else?

by /u/mOnion in /r/askscience

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