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DEPTH.ORSLEEP
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DREAM 9 minutes
DREAM 19 minutes
DREAM 24 minutes
DREAM 28 minutes
HOURS OF
CHANGED
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In each night's
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By observing the filckering of the eyes and by recording the pattern of brain-waves on an electrio machine, scientists can now estimate how much of mur, elson is occupied by dreams. This is a typical chart constructed from their exparimente. 5 juta
sleep how much do you dream?
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AVERYBODY dreams every night, whether they think they do or not, and their dreams last about two hours, not for only a few brief seconds, aa formerly believed.
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The real difference between people who know they alwaye dream and those who may they rarely do is simply beller waking memory for dreams.
are the latest cinitas made by the team of scientists led by Dr Nathaniel Kieltman, who has spent more than 20 years Investigating dreams and the mental process which ercates them.
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electric machine.
The eye-flekera scanning movements
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This was not simply the result of loss of sleep, for others who were awakened just as often when they were not dreaming were unaffected.
Dement believes, it is possible they enough dreaming tong
for dreams is peer except for the dreams as heavy rain or that if people were deprived of those which occur just before rivers,
When the eyes are almost waking. Few people can remem- WHh sensitive instruments would suffer a serious break- stationary they report dreaming her a dream which takes place electrical activity can be detected down.
bout distant objects. ...
more than 10 minutes before in the muscles of the ears and Maybe dreams are a means of they awaken,
legs when the sleeper dreams he releasing mental tension -- of is using them,
The scientists checked this by waking people when the eye- movements began. The wakened sleepers always eald they had heen dreaming. When awak- coed during periods when their eyes were not twitching they declared that they had not
dreamed at all,
The pattern of dreaming
varles situations.
with
people.
A waste
and
Walking
This means that we have no
conscious knowledge of most of our dreams which the 'o vivid dreamer, like me, seems a waste, (Gelting out of the wrong side of the bel" may be left-over frustration from
gunoyance or
sime forgotten (dream.)
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enabling us to take part in
The muscles are activated into fantasics and even exciting full-scale use in sleep-walkers crimes which real life denies to who seem to be enacting a us, dream as they get out of bed.
After sludying scores of people of all ages, the scientists, claim that dreaming is a fundamental and probably essential physio- legical process. What then is its purpose?
Anxiety
Hostile
A study of the content of 10,000 dreams made by Profesor Calvin Hall showed that, hartile acts like bickering, dghting, and murder outnumber kladnentes in dreams by about three to one.
Fear js the commonest Dr William Dement of the emotion. in dreams, sadness Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, being rare.
The dream-state is similar to claims that a certain amount of dreaming is necessary for mental the waxing world of the schizo- balance. The human mind can phrenic whose mind withdraws realm of fantasy in which not continue to function properly into
dreaming is 'completely !5 cannot distinguish it suppressed,
imagined from the real.
The scientists are them on their discovery that
Events seem to happen in possible 10 tell when П
dreams et rbcut the same speed sleeping person I dreaming by observing the flickering of the I seem to start dreaming the that they do in real fot pre- eyes and the pattern of the montent I nod off, especially in with the super-rapidly brain-waves as registered by an an armchair, but the scientists viously believed, Dr Kleitman nightly found in his laboratory. at report that in normal
first dream period Chicago University. represent sleep the
The brain-waves by begins about an hour after the
reveal that made the sleeper 03 he watches onset of sleep. This lasts about dreaming takes place during the The more 10 minutes. Then every 90 Jighter, phases of sleep which dream-world events, Belively he is involved in the minutes or so dreams lasting up explains why real-life events When people were reportedly In short, without a couple of
the knocking of the awakened as they were starting hours of strictly private dream the faster the flickering, to half an hour cccur, making such
total of about two hours postman on the door can to dream so that their total uninhibited scapism "every! Further, the direction in which
the In one dreaming time was greatly re- night, the eyes twitch is related to the dreaming Ume, as shown in the Intrude into a dream.
mental strain of experiment. drops of water duved, they became irritable, keeping our lives within the content of the dreams. When chart. the movements are up and down Dy waiting people up the falling on the skin of sleepers anxious, and their powers of corines set by civilised socicly the sleepers report dreaming scientists found that memory often insinuated themselves into concentration were curtailed. might prove unbearable.
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