The particular sleep architecture of an individual over the course of an average night – the overall sleep time, the structure and pattern of sleep stages and phases, the time spent in non-REM and REM sleep, the timing and organization of sleep cycles, etc. – is best illustrated by means of a hypnogram (see example for a typical adult below), a simplified graphical representation of the results from a more detailed polysomnogram over a complete sleep period.
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