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...angle. An argument that resonates with many is that whatever the explanation for dreaming, humans must do it for the same reason that all mammals have done it for more than 100 million years; any theory must make as much sense when applied to a rabbit as to a person. In the same Darwinian vein, sleeping and dreaming must serve important functions because they're vulnerable states and natural selection would have eliminated them if they didn't provide compensating benefits. In the ancestral environment, human life was short and perilous; ever-lurking predators threatened survival and reproductive success...
...Still, sleep research is a breeze compared to studying dreaming. In the former, you can at least be certain you're observing a sleeping person. "But we don't have a device that looks into a person's head and sees dreams happening in real time," says Russell Conduit, a lecturer in the school of psychology, psychiatry and psychological medicine at Melbourne's Monash University. Instead, dream researchers rely on what he calls the "faulty methodology" of waking subjects and asking them what was going on in their heads immediately before they were woken. But because certain parts...
...line. If, as Solms believes, dreams spring from the motivational part of our brain at a time when other parts that inhibit us are off-line, "it follows that there's value in interpreting dreams," he says. They provide a "privileged, unfiltered access" to what's on a person's mind. Mark Blagrove, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Wales, where he runs a sleep laboratory, thinks it's possible the search for a biological function of dreaming could be futile. "It could just be," he says, "that our elaborate dreams are a side effect of the fact...
...there's one person who can convince men to spend more time with their families, it's not necessarily a child or a wife. It's a boss who leads by example. Studies show that when CEOs and department heads try to balance their own lives, instead of merely urging subordinates to do so, then everyone benefits. "In our research we have found that any change in attitude works best when the tone at the top stipulates what the corporate culture will be," says Karen Sumberg of the Center for Work-Life Policy in the U.S. "If taking time...
...would likely bring moderate Tamil parties to power, threatening the L.T.T.E.'s influence. There is no doubt Prabhakaran is a prophetlike figure for many Tamils, but his power stems as much from his cold-blooded elimination of political rivals and moderate Tamil leaders as from genuine devotion. "Each individual person knows that if his name gets on a list of those who want change [from Tiger domination], they better be very careful," says Father Benjamin Henry "Harry" Miller, 81, a Catholic priest who arrived in Sri Lanka in 1948 and works at a Jesuit school in Batticaloa. Proud and inflexible...