Word: demented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their most dramatic progress. The stuff that has been written about dreams would fill a library, and most of it makes as much sense as "such stuff as dreams are made on." Dr. Kleitman's Chicago team determined to collect accurate data. Such brilliant students as Dr. William Dement (now at Stanford University) and Dr. Edward Wolpert (now at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital) stuck a tiny electrode on each side of a volunteer's eye and carried the leads to a brain-wave machine (electroencephalograph) in the next room...
...Dement devised an ingenious experiment to find out what happens if a person is allowed to sleep his normal number of hours, but is not allowed to dream. His volunteers were awakened whenever their REMs indicated the beginning of a dream. Then they were allowed to fall asleep again. And so on, night after night. By the third night, most volunteers began to get edgy and act strange. In the final part of the experiment, when they were allowed to sleep as long as they wanted, they dreamed twice as much as usual...
...grading devices; hence there are a few courses where one can act out a "role" for his final grade or turn in a sheaf of cartoons on two-person group interactions instead of writing an examination. Finally, and most important, much of the work a student encounters in the Dement is so engaging that he does not think of it as work...
Only three of the Institute scholars come from outside Massachusetts. Miss Alice L. Dement, of San Jose, Cal., plans to finish a book encouraging gifted women to continue intellectual work. Mrs. Carol McCormick Crosswell, a lawyer from New York, will publish a work dealing with the techniques of business abroad. Miss Alma Wittlin, from Albuquerque, N.M., will study improved methods for teaching science to elementary school children...
...this reasoning, Shakespeare understated the case with "To sleep: perchance to dream." Mayhap there is no "perchance." And Freud may have been conservative when he called dreams "the guardian of sleep." By Dr. Dement's data, they are the guardian of sanity...