On Wed, 5 May 1999, Jeff Ricker wrote:
>
> William Dement and a "contributer" have recently published a book that might
> suggest some answers:
>
> The Promise of Sleep : A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explains the Vital
> Connection
> Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep
> by William C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan
>
> I looked through it last night. As you might glean from the title, it is
> written for a popular audience (and almost had a self-help quality to it). But
> it still looked like it might give some good answers concerning the effects of
> chronic deprivations of sleep as well as sleep disorders. I was in a rush, so I
> didn't look at what Dement had to say about the relationship between REM and
> dreams.
Heck, it was Dement who was primarily responsible for promulgating the
REM = dreaming equation in the first place. If he's recanted, now
that would be interesting.
He's also the originator of the claim that REM deprivation causes
psychological problems. And he did recant on that one, although not
everyone noticed.
-Stephen
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