TY  - JOUR
T1  - WAking fantasies following interrupted and completed rem periods
AU  - Fiss H, Ellman SJ, Klein GS
Y1  - 1969/08/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740200102014
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 230
EP  - 239
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
N2  - 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
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740200102014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740200102014
ER  -