REM_Sleep_And_Its_Effects_On_The_Mind_And_Body

REM Sleep And Its Effects On The Mind And Body Dreams are a window into the mind. These may be our most elaborate, distinctive, revealing, and flamboyant creations. Dreams have fascinated minds since ancient times. The Egyptians built temples for dreaming. The oracles of Greece pondered dreams as the "royal road to the unconscious."(Papanek 15) Dreams allow us to glimpse beyond that which we are and know in daily life; they hint of other dimensions of space and time. People have often wondered what dreams really mean: why their minds tell them stories at night. Scientists have studied sleep and sleep patterns for years to find the answers to the mysteries of sleep, dreams, and the effects they have on ones life. With the discovery of REM Sleep, scientists have become one step closer to solving these puzzles. REM sleep, although not fully understood, is a crucial and necessary function of life. At the University of Chicago in 1951, a student named Eugene Aserinsky was conducting experiments on wakefulness and sleep under Professor Nathaniel Kleitman. (Papanek 22) While studying sleeping infants, Aserinsky noticed that jerky motions of the eyes under closed lids frequently accompanied periodic body shifts. He decided to measure movements of the infants’ eye muscles sleep, rem, during, people, brain, dreams, night, heart, time, one, longer, eye, dream, while, system, nervous, movements, about, stage, scientists, researchers, percent, movement, just, body, activity, volunteers, through, sleeping, non-rem, eyes, dreaming, blood, adults, sympathetic