Dream and Drug-Induced Fantasy Behavior

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THE STUDY to be reported here is the first in a series aimed at providing data relevant to our understanding of the function of the dream in normal life. Not only is there a good deal of controversy about what kind of function the content of the dream might serve, but also sharp differences in views about whether, in fact, it serves any at all. The new field of monitored sleep and dream research has established that two distinctive types of sleep alternately recur (the activated and the quiescent) and that these two types are discriminable both in terms of their neurophysiological and psychological characteristics.1-4 The psychological content sampled during the activated phase, the low voltage fast electroencephalogram (EEG) with Rapid Eye Movements (REM sleep) is what we recognize as a dream. Typically awakings from this phase yield reports of nonreality bound perceptual experience with

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