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William Dement

Sample dreams from sleep and dream researcher William C. Dement's book Some must Sleep while Others must Watch.

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	BANANA CREAM PIE: by Anonymous #59, c.1960, a set of 6 experiment-protesting dreams An experiment to see if pie can substitute for REM seems to work at first, but after the third slice the subject grows less enthused. By slice six, he dreams he's forcing that pie down the experimenter...
	CANCER: by William Dement, c.1969, a health-warning nightmare A few years ago I smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, though I knew they were carcinogenic. I dreamed I had terminal cancer; my denial of the evidence had killed me. I woke, and quit...
	CHANGE MY GRIP: by Jack Nicklaus, 1964/6/24, a problem-solving dream My golf game has been way off; a 76 is starting to look good. But last Wednesday I dreamed I changed my grip--just a little. When I woke I tried it. Yesterday I shot a 68; today, 65...
	PICK ME!: by William Dement's daughter, 1959 or '60, a not-yet-two-year-old's dream I went into her room one morning before she awoke and saw her eyes moving. Suddenly she said, "Pick me! Pick me!" I woke her and she immediately said, "Oh, Daddy, I was a flower." ...

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