THE IMPORTANCE OF DREAMS
In 1960, an American psychiatrist named William Dement published
experiments dealing with the recording of eye-movements during sleep. He showed
that the average individual's sleep cycle is punctuated with peculiar bursts of eye-
movement, some drifting and slow, others jerky and rapid. People woken during
these periods of eye-movement generally reported that they had been dreaming.
When woken at other times they reported no dreams. If one group of people were
disturbed from their eye-movement sleep for several nights on end, and another
group were disturbed for an equal period of time but when
they were not exhibiting eye-movements, the first
group began to show some personality disorders,
while the others seemed more or less unaffected.
The implications of all this were that it was not
the disturbance of sleep that mattered but the
disturbance of dreaming.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) interrupt at intervals
b) strange; unusual
c) short and sudden period
d) moving slowly with no purpose or direction
e) moving abruptly and unevenly
f) show; display
g) something that is suggested or hinted at by
something else
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