Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Hobson J. Allan

Author:Hobson, J. Allan [Hobson, J. Allan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

As dreaming normally occurs at sleep onset and in non-REM (NREM) sleep (and no one has yet investigated the possibility that this tendency increases when REM sleep is curtailed), William Dement and his psychoanalyst–neuroscientist colleague Charles Fisher were sure that dream deprivation (REM deprivation, really) would cause people to become psychotic because they would not have the psychic escape valve that dreaming – and only dreaming – made available to them. Needless to say, some of the participants did become psychotic when their sleep deprivation was prolonged. Everyone who lived through this period remembers the stories of students who became psychotic after 10 days of REM deprivation. As a publicity stunt, the disc jockey Peter Tripp was kept awake for 72 hours in his broadcasting booth. Tripp’s normal hypnomanic radio chatter was gradually replaced by fixed paranoid delusions.

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