RT Journal
A1 Fiss H, Ellman SJ, Klein GS
T1 WAking fantasies following interrupted and completed rem periods
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1969
FD August 1
VO 21
IS 2
SP 230
OP 239
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740200102014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740200102014
AB THE RECENT development of dream research shows a marked, though historically not uncommon, shift in emphasis from description and measurement to theorizing. Thus, the "rebound effect" found to result from REM sleep deprivation has been interpreted as evidence that REM sleep serves to clear the central nervous system of certain metabolic substances.1 The observation that neonates spend 50% or more of their total sleep time in stage 1 REM has led to the speculation that the endogenous stimulation provided by REM sleep is vital tp the maturation and differentiation of the central nervous system.2 The finding that the opossum, the most primitive mammal in existence, has sleep cycle characteristics not unlike man's has been considered to suggest a "sentinel" or "vigilance" function, preparing the sleeping organism for fight or flight.3Each of these propositions, however, provides a rationale for