Beyond the Book
In the early 1950s Eugene
Aserinsky discovered the stage of sleep known as rapid eye
movement (REM) which is characterized by vivid dreaming.
William Dement, a fellow graduate student, then described the five
stages of normal sleep, laying the foundation for all sleep research
since then. The next generation of researchers mostly debunked
Sigmund Freud's
theories about dreaming, while today's researchers have new technology
available to them,
such as MRI scans, to further expand our
understanding. Interesting Link:
A 1997 paper by William Dement about the importance of sleep...
