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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
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Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.
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Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
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Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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William Dement
Born:
July 29, 1928
Died:
June 17, 2020
(aged 91)
Bio:
William Charles Dement was a pioneering US sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University.
Known for:
The promise of sleep (1999)
Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (1989)
The Stanford Sleep Book (2006)
Some must watch while some must sleep (1972)
The sleepwatchers (1992)
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