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First Published:
Mar 2004, 256 pages
Paperback:
Mar 2005, 240 pages
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This article relates to The Mind at Night
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 and sleep
disorders
'Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely
insane every night of our lives.' -- William Dement.
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