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FREDERICK SNYDER, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;8(4):381-391.

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Man's wondering about his dreams has been singularly intertwined with the history of psychiatry, and understanding of one has grown pari passu with that of the other. Whatever sophistication concerning the meaning of dreams thus attained, until very recently our view of dreaming itself remained essentially that granted by common experience. The traditional conception of dreaming, even as it was assumed in Freud's penetrating studies, described an occasional, unpredictable, fleeting, and mysterious psychic anomaly. Over the past decade experimental tools more searching than common experience have begun to amend this traditional conception. This is intended as a cursory review of the amassing evidence which suggests that dreaming is one facet of a substantial, predictable, universal, and basic biological function. Beyond that purpose the rest is speculative flight, striving for some distant glimpse of possible implications of this new conception for psychiatry.

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Author Affiliations
BETHESDA, MD.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 1, 1962.

Adult Psychiatry Branch, Clinical Investigations, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

The term "dreaming sleep" is offered without apology because I consider it the most apt and expedient way to designate the physiological constellation referred to. It is not intended to beg the question of the evidence for the relationship to dreaming, but neither is this an appropriate occasion for evaluation of that evidence. There are several recent contributions to this,^20,45 and others are in preparation. The same periods during sleep are elsewhere referred to as "rapid eye movement sleep" (REM period) or as "emergent stage I."

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