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History of Dreams

By vball96
  • Descartes discovers that our dreams are so real that our senses may be illusory

  • Discovered Circadian Rhythm in plants

  • Frederick van Eden coins the term "lucid dreaming"

  • Freud states dreams represent repressed memories, fears, and desires

  • Jung says dreams are spiritual expression of the unconcious mind

  • First human EEG

  • Link REM sleep and dreaming

  • Describe repeating cycle of sleep

  • Set world record for tsleep deprivation and no stimulants as 11 days

  • Lucid dreaming accounted as a unique state of consciousness

  • Proves existence of lucid dreaming through eye movements

  • Dreams are random frings in the brainstem

  • Expirement validates conscious dreaming

  • Total sleep deprivation results in the death a rat between 2-3 weeks

  • Published book about sleeps effects on learning and memory

  • Neurological Labrator shows lucid dreams generating highly active GAMMA rays

  • Scientists at the Max Planck Institute use MRI to record in-dream action of lucid dreamers.