If you are awakened from sleep and you feel as though you had not even been asleep, then you were most likely in which stage of sleep?
a) NREM stage 1
b) NREM stage 2
c) NREM stage 3
d) REM
ANS: A, Stage 1 sleep is our lightest stage, where we are very close to being awake.
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