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...recent advances in brain science, it shouldn't surprise that the riddle of dreaming hasn't been cracked. "We still don't know why we sleep, let alone why we dream," says Dorothy Bruck, professor of psychology at Melbourne's Victoria University. It seems commonsensical that sleep is a restorative phase for brain and body, and there's some evidence that the effects of sleep deprivation are the result of minor brain damage that would normally be repaired when we're asleep. But despite their best efforts, scientists have been unable to pinpoint what's going on in sleep that...
...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 of the brain are switched off during sleep, it shouldn't be assumed that subjects' answers will be accurate. They may have been having a dream but simply weren't paying attention, can't remember it, or both. "If you took a lot of the dream research to a physicist," says Conduit, "they'd laugh...
...common at sleep onset and shortly before waking in the morning. But he found an even weaker spot in the Hobson-McCarley hypothesis. If their theory was right, then people with damage to a part of the brain stem called the pons-the on-off switch for REM sleep-shouldn't be having dreams. Solms, however, had five patients with lesions in precisely that region, and while they weren't having REM, they were nonetheless reporting dreams...
...support, not because such endeavors aren't virtuous but because the majority of Americans are getting what they want from higher education, at a price most are willing to pay. That education as commerce has led to such marketing aberrations as college rankings, grade inflation and other competitive amenities shouldn't be a surprise to anyone familiar with Pogo's dictum, "We have met the enemy...
...McCain's reputation for candor. The Democrats can't seem to settle on a sweetheart, while on the right, "I'd like to be able to choose a little of each one," as a senior Republican lawmaker put it recently. If his best competitors are Frankenstein's monsters, why shouldn't a distant contender like Hagel try to cobble together an image that proudly shows its seams...