20 Ss (10 sensitizers and 10 repressers) were awakened four times at REM-sleep onset on 1 night and 4 times during NREM sleep on another. Strength of grip on arousal from REM sleep was consistently but insignificantly lower than that on NREM nights. Decrement from presleep strength of grip was significant for sensitizers but not for repressers.
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