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Time To SpareBy GERALD ANDREWS - Retirement AdviserThe Drama of Dreams dream we’re having, and the typeIn one of my recent columns I of eye movement. For example, discussed insomnia. Judging from if in our dream we see something my “fan mail”, sleep is a topic falling, our closed eyes move that intrigues many of you. vertically. And if in our dreamI’m not surprised. Only in the we’re watching someone walk by,{last ten years have we really our eyes move horizontally, earned about the sleep process why the need for dreaming? , . . thanks to considerable re- As one sleep scientist put it, tearch by sleep scientists. “Dreaming provides a symbolicSo I thought I’d go a step fur- 'magic’ fulfillment of repressed ther and tell you what I’ve learn- and suppressed drives and wished about dreams. We all know es. Therefore, dreaming is a very that sleep gives us time to boost valuable ‘safety valve’ for the the reserves of our tired muscles mind. In dreaming we have the and other parts of the body. But opportunity to gratify wishes, de-did you realize that sleep also re- sires, needs that we have during freshes your mind? Yes, that’s the day. Whether or not we re-the role of dreaming. member our dreams when weStudies dealing with dream awake isn’t so important — the loss have revealed how each of us fact of dreaming is important.” “needs” to dream. At the Labor- Sleep scientists recently studied atory ©f Neurophysiology at Chi- twenty-seven subjects, aged sixty-cago University, research showed six to eighty-seven, in the area of that volunteers who were waked dream recall. They found dream up before they could dream recall was markedly less in older , couldn’t tolerate lack of sleep as adults than in younger. Some fac-well as volunteers awakened af- tors affecting dream recall, inter they had dreamed. elude repression of anxiety, depthBoth groups had the same of sleep, and verbal intelligence.■ number of hours of sleep during The ladies tend to have more the night. Those who slept little frequent dream recall than we but had dreams remained rela- men.tively healthy. But those who Who knows — maybe in the slept little and had no dreams next ten years scientists will be soon developed symptoms of able to tell us how to interpret anxiety and nervousness. our dreams. But certainly theEven the “mechanics” of dream- next few years of research should Ing are intriguing. We’re asleep bring us even greater understand-— but beneath the eyelids our ing of sleep changes, the nature eyes dart back and forth. There’s of aging, and the functions of a similarity between the type of sleep.
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