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- From: preiser@cancer.unm.edu (Doug Preiser)
- Subject: Re: Theory on dreaming
- Message-ID: <_mjq#yr@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:10:28 GMT
- Organization: UNM Cancer Center
- References: <1des49INNfbe@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>,<92317.203200C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu>
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- In article <92317.203200C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu>, C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu writes:
- >From what I remember from my Intro. to Psych. class, this is true. What has
- >been 'found' to occur is that people usually go through about 4 cycles of sleep
- >each one 'interrupted' by one dream. Each successive cycle's dream is shorter
- >(I don't remember anything about less color, plot, etc.), ie. each REM period
- >is shorter than the previous one.
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- Actually, REM periods get longer as sleep goes on. The periods *between* REM
- get shorter.
- >
- >Just my 2cents--Dan K
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- Doug.
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