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II. An Electromyographic Study of Dreaming

EDWARD A. WOLPERT, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(2):231-241.

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The work of Kleitman and his students^1-4 has demonstrated conclusively that a low-voltage, fast-activity electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern during sleep is typically associated with dreaming. By continuous monitoring of brain waves during sleep, it is now possible to localize the dream as it occurs. The discovery of the association of a specific EEG pattern with dreaming was antedated by the observation that rapid, conjugate eye movements during sleep are associated with visual dreams.^1-3,5 Not all dreams are visual, however, and dreams without rapid eye movements (REM’s) have been observed to be nonvisual in nature. Indeed, the amount of reported physical activity by the dreamer has been found by Dement and Wolpert⁵ to be related to the amount of eye movement observed electrically, the EEG pattern being constant regardless of the amount of activity in the dream. In addition, the spatial direction of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, 950 E. 59th St.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 22, 1959.

Based on a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Division of Social Sciences of the University of Chicago in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Psychology.

I wish to thank the members of my doctoral committee, Drs. Joe Kamiya, Chairman, Nathaniel Kleitman, and Harry Trosman, for their advice, encouragement, and aid during the course of this study.

Supported in part by Grant No. M-2116, National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Joe Kamiya, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, principal investigator, and by a research stipend awarded from a National Science Foundation grant.

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