Word: kleitman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, the liver reverses the starch-storing process and turns the glycogen into energy. When the baby begins feeding, the liver goes on to a normal, lifelong rate of glycogen manufacture. ¶ "Such stuff as dreams are made on" brought unsuspected data from Chicago Physiologists William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman: a person can dream for an average of two hours a night and remember little of it; his chances of remembering decrease the longer he sleeps after the dream ends; dreaming does not take place while the body is restless in light sleep; far from flashing by almost instantaneously...