[Day 2485 2021-07-15]Lesson 19-3
The stuff of dreams
He showed that the average individual's sleep cycle is punctuatedwith peculiar bursts of eye-movements, some drifting and slow, othersjerky and rapid. People woken during these periods of eye-movementsgenerally reported that they had been dreaming. When woken at othertimes they reported no dreams. If one group of people were disturbedfrom their eye-movement sleep for several nights on end, and anothergroup were disturbed for an equal period of time but when they were noexhibiting eye - movements, the first group began to show somepersonality disorders while the others seemed more or less unaffected.The implications of all this were that it was not the disturbance of sleepthat mattered, but the disturbance of dreaming.