Dement and Kleitman

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Aim Investigate the relationship between REM and dreams: Do dreams occur just in REM sleep length of REM and length of dream eye movements correlate to visual experience in dream
Sample 9 (7M 2F) opportunity sample 5 were studied intensively referred to as initials.
What were the participants told to abstain from? alcohol and caffine
How were their eye movements recorded EOG
How was the electric activity of their brain recorded? ECG
What were they asked when woken? Whether they had been dreaming and is so what was the content of dream whether they had been dreaming for 5 or 15 minutes
When were they woken up? During episodes of horizontal and vertical eye movement Random numbers 3 REM 3 NREM Whim of the researcher
Findings: occurrence of REM Average: lasted 20 minutes every 92 minutes episodes tended be longer later into the night
Findings: REM versus NREM activity More likely to report having a dream when woken in REM sleep (65%-90%) compared to NREM (3%-12.5%)
Findings: Dream estimates Participants were 83% correct. One participant was to blame for the majority of the incorrect answers
Findings: eye movement Strong association between pattern of eye movement and content of dream, tomato dream, looking at people climbing
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