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Preliminary Report

CHARLES FISHER, MD; JOSEPH GROSS, MD; JOSEPH ZUCH, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(1):29-45.

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Introduction

The discovery of the dream-sleep cycle by Aserinsky and Kleitman¹ and Dement and Kleitman² is now well known. Briefly, it has been found that there are regularly recurring periods of sleep which are physiologically unique, showing a characteristic EEG pattern ( Stage 1) together with bursts of bilaterally synchronous, conjugate, rapid vertical and horizontal eye movements (REMs),^* and that this physiological pattern is highly correlated with the sleeper's recall of detailed dream experiences. There are generally four or five such periods in an average night's sleep, dreaming taking up 20%-25% of the total sleep time. Further, the cyclic pattern of dreaming has been found to be relatively fixed and stable and universally present in the thousands of subjects that have by now been investigated in numerous laboratories. Fig 1 is a schematic representation of the dream-sleep cycle of a young adult, showing five REM dream-periods in an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Institute of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 10, 1964.

This study was supported by a Public Health Service Research grant, MH-03267, from the National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service.

A modified version of this paper was read before the New York Psychoanalytic Society, March 17, 1964.

REMs stands for rapid eye movements, REMP for rapid eye movement period, and NREMP for the other stages of sleep.

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