A Conversation for Dreams

Loss of REM and Hallucinations

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Apollyon - Grammar Fascist

In some of the studies where people were deprived of REM sleep, if the volunteers were deprived for long enough, they eventually started to hallucinate. This suggests that hallucinations are in fact waking dreams.


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