Word: dreamed
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...electrical waves of a sleeper's brain become as active as they are during wakefulness, and his eyeballs dart and swivel in a series of rapid eye movements (REMs). During these periods of REM sleep, which typically last 20 to 30 minutes, the sleeper is most likely to dream...
...really knows for sure whether animals in REM sleep actually dream, but they apparently undergo a learning process. University of California Psychologist William Fishbein has found that laboratory mice taught to expect electric shocks at the end of laboratory alleyways develop amnesia about their painful experience after they have been deprived of REM sleep. It is now provable that the more advanced a creature is, the more it can learn-and the more REM sleep it has. Humans in infancy, learning more intensely than they ever will again because everything is new to them, spend 50% of their sleep...
...never been so evident before. Now I see it all from the inside. When SDS babbles of the "military-industrial complex" they are more close to the truth than even they themselves believe. The "complex" is all-encompassing, all-powerful, all-knowing, and every other adjectival clause one can dream...
...loud and sounded like it was not outside but right in the room with him and not actually a sound, either, but a great suffusing presence, visual, almost tactile, a great impacting of . . . blue . . . all around him and suddenly he was in a realm of consciousness he had never dreamed of before and it was not a dream or delirium but part of his awareness...
Rebirth with Newby is no hallelujah experience. It means confronting and finally answering the question that one's particular destiny has been asking from the beginning. At the end, Townrow lives out the dream that has haunted him from the opening page. Like a saintly pilgrim, he sets off across Port Said harbor in a small boat, ferrying the coffin of the dead man whose estate he came to plunder, and then moves out to sea in search of an absolute emptiness in which to find himself...