A study of older people found plenty of deep REM (rapid eye movement) sleep – when vivid dreams occur – protected against the devastating neurological disorder.
But spending less time in this phase of the sleep cycle increased the risk by more than a quarter.
And taking longer to enter it by having too much light sleep was also associated with the condition, said scientists.
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