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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by rapid eye movement or r e

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m not the same thing as shifty eye movement a

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k something you really shouldn't do in a police lineup

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Okay here's our question which had falling scientists conducted research

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that led to our understanding of the effects of ram

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sleep deprivations on here A potential answers for stuff comes

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freud who were sure you know for his work in

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psycho analysis the unconscious the ego super ego in about

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a million other things with varying degrees of weird sexual

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nous attached to him But he's also well known for

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his work on dream analysis In short freud believed dreams

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aim to keep the sleeper asleep by fulfilling all of

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their wishes that would otherwise awaken them Weird yes but

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we expect nothing less from freud Still he's not our

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answer John allen hobson and robert mccarley meanwhile are best

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known for their research on rapid eye movement sleep and

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their theory explaining the cause of dreams The two essentially

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argue that dreams are vaguely cohesive narratives formed by the

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brain as a response to the activation of biochemical an

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electrical charges that occurred during sleep called the activation synthesis

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theory it directly opposes the aforementioned freudian view and instead

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suggest the dreams are for the most part random thinks

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this simply is the brain's effort to synthesize the random

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signals triggered during rem sleep But it doesn't deal with

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sleep deprivation so it doesn't fit the bill Ernest hartman

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however harks back to a more freddie and understanding of

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dreams A psychoanalyst himself hartman emphasized dreams as a mode

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of connection making He thought that dreams carried meaning were

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useful in therapy and ultimately served in drawing connections between

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memories and experiences We consciously would not still nothing to

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a sleep deprivation So he's not our dream answer That

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leaves us with a william charles dement a sleep researcher

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best known for his focus on sleep deprivation sleep disorders

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sleep apnea and narcolepsy Well dement conducted research in which

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he prevented participants from experiencing a full cycle of rem

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sleep and then examining what happened to their sleep cycles

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He found that immediately after being deprived of ram cycle

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sleep the participants cycles increased from ninety minutes to one

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hundred twenty minutes Funny we had a dream That was

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the right answer right before ah mellower Yellow word dream 00:02:21.51 --> [endTime] interrupted

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