Etaoin Shrdlu <cooper17.spamless at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> If prehistoric people slept in two nightly periods, then
>> regularly awakening out of REM sleep may have allowed them to
>> reflect on and remember their dreams in a semiconscious state
>> that's generally unavailable to modern sleepers. Sleep
>> compressed into a single stint may thus encourage modern
>> humans to lose touch with dreams, myths, and fantasies, Wehr
>> argues John
>>Interestingly, in "Never Cry Wolf", during the period when he
>was trying to "live like" the wolves, Farley Mowatt reports
>that when he started trying to wake up every 20 minutes to half
>hour for long enough to glance around the cabin, stand up, and
>lie down in a new position, he felt more rested than usual
>(once he got used to it) and remembered dreaming a lot.
Novelist use a great deal of "literary license", and don't
make for very good technical reference works. "Never Cry Wolf"
is totally a work of fiction, from the *imagination* of
Farley Mowat. Its a great story, but you don't want to assume
that what he says is true, or that any part of the story
ever actually happened.
Floyd
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Floyd L. Davidson floyd at barrow.com
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
