- People with major depression or a depressive illness spend more time in REM sleep and not enough time in non-REM sleep
- Not everyone dreams. (Great -- now I'll have to go through all of the posts in this blog to correct this.) People that recently had a stroke sometimes stop draming, although the ability to dream can return
- Dreams inspired the sweing machine
- Women dream about having sex with celebrities (ahem) twice as often as men do.
A quirky look at sleep, lucid dreams, nightmares and the characters we meet there.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
BBC Horizon Documentary, "Why Do We Dream?"
Can't get enough information about dreams? Check out this 58 minute documentary by the BBC's acclaimed science programme, Horizon. I do not know if this has been aired in the United States, but if it did, it probably was broadcast as a Nova episode sometime after 2008. About 10 minutes would have cut out from any Nova broadcast for PBS "non-commercial" commericals. Some of the most interesting bits from this documentary:
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