REM sleep
- CURIE:
gmeow:modeREM - IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/modeREM
- Category: individual
- Defined by:
gmeow:slices/awareness - Box roles: ABox role (What is this?)
Rapid-eye-movement sleep — the sleep stage of vivid dreaming, desynchronised cortical activity, and skeletal-muscle atonia. The characteristic stage in which gmeow:modeDreaming occurs; a specialised sleep mode beside gmeow:modeAsleep, mapping to NSWO/sleep-staging vocabularies by reference.
Structure
Types: gmeow:AwarenessMode
Practical Pattern
Use gmeow:modeREM as a controlled value typed as gmeow:AwarenessMode.
Example Snippets
These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.
Sleep Episode
- Source:
slices/core/awareness/examples/sleep-episode.ttl - Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-awareness-examples-sleep-episode
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/awareness/> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — a human night's sleep. An agent's awareness state over a night
# is reified as a gmeow:AwarenessTenure (gmeow:modeAsleep, gmeow:levelUnresponsive)
# scoped to a temporal interval. A nested REM sub-tenure (gmeow:modeREM /
# gmeow:modeDreaming) sits within it, and a still-finer gmeow:modeLucidDreaming
# moment marks the point at which metacognition comes ONLINE during the dream —
# the lucidity seam, documented BY REFERENCE in the prose comment, with NO triple
# asserted into the metacognition namespace. No truth or reality bit anywhere:
# the dream STATE is the gmeow:modeDreaming awareness value, and the dreamt
# content's source would be a reality-monitoring matter (gmeow:contentOrigin,
# imagination slice, by reference), never a flag here.
# --- A nested REM sub-tenure: rapid-eye-movement sleep, the vivid-dreaming stage.
# The same agent, two co-applying modes (REM stage + dreaming), a shorter span
# contained within the night interval.
ex:lillithREM a gmeow:AwarenessTenure ;
rdfs:label "Lillith's REM episode"@en ;
gmeow:awarenessSubject ex:lillith ;
gmeow:awarenessMode gmeow:modeREM , gmeow:modeDreaming ;
gmeow:awarenessLevel gmeow:levelUnresponsive ;
gmeow:duringInterval ex:remInterval .