REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) is a sleep disorder characterised by the acting out of vivid, often unpleasant dreams with vocal sounds and/or complex motor behaviours during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Normally during REM sleep, your body’s muscles are relaxed and inactive (atonia), but in RBD, this atonia is incomplete or absent, allowing you to physically act out your dreams.

A pattern of primitive shapes in yellow, white, black and a variety of shades of purple.

Parkinson’s Australia National Conference

6-8 April 2025, National Convention Centre Canberra, ACT