At Stanford, William Dement's Sleep and Dreams class was phenomenally popular right from the start. He continued to teach it for almost 5 decades
nothing much wrong with Stanford, as far as William Dement could see. To someone like him, who had left New York in January 1963 with his car buried in snow, this university—with its palms, its Spanish-colonial buildings and its skies of unbroken blue—looked like paradise. He and his wife strolled about and ate ice creams, in January, in a state of wonder.
The result was a national plague of drowsiness. People blamed warm rooms or boring lectures for the fact that they kept nodding off in the daytime; but this was their sleep debt being called in. And the results, he warned them with increasing urgency, could be catastrophic. Someone who drowsed was mere seconds from sleep. The grounding of the, had all been caused totally or in part by sleepy people.
His pursuit of the sleeping self had long been fairly solitary. In the 1950s he began to study dreaming—that strange activity which, every night, allowed him to be quietly and safely insane—at the University of Chicago and then at Mount Sinai in New York. There his apartment was his laboratory, where volunteers, including Rockettes from Radio City Music Hall and a girl he was especially sweet on, were fitted with electrodes and regularly roused to see if they recalled their dreams.
His Sleep and Dreams class was phenomenally popular right from the start, in 1971. So many signed up for the first lecture that no space was big enough except Memorial Church. And the class, which he went on teaching past 90, became famous, a sort of true-believers’ gathering, where heavy-eyed students would be sprayed awake with his trusty squirt gun and made to shout “Drowsiness is red alert!”, the motto of the cause.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Michael Jackson's never-before-seen diary unveils plans to be 'immortal'EXCLUSIVE: An explosive book tells how Michael Jackson - who died in June 2009 - has plans to be 'immortalized' forever, as well as revealing the singer's crippling fears
Read more »
Fed adds Apple, Anheuser-Busch, Expedia to its bond holdingsThe U.S. Federal Reserve added $1.33 billion in bonds of individual companies from June 22 to June 30, including iPhone maker Apple Inc, beer-producer Anheuser-Busch and travel booker Expedia Group.
Read more »
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries BrandVoice: What 17th-Century Entrepreneurs Knew About Sustainable Business SuccessWhat 17th-century entrepreneurs knew about sustainable business success Sponsored by MHI_Group
Read more »
Japan's wholesale price fall eases in June, weak demand clouds outlookJapanese wholesale prices fell in June at a slower pace after sinking at the fastest rate in four years in May, as a rebound in Chinese demand lifted commodity costs and eased some of the deflationary pressure caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more »
How June of 44 Found Closure on Their First Album in 21 YearsHear reunited indie outfit’s new take on their 1999 track “Recorded Syntax”
Read more »
Fast Retailing cuts outlook on pandemic woes despite Uniqlo June reboundJapan's Fast Retailing Co , owner of casual clothing brand Uniqlo, lowered its outlook for the year as the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on its global fashion business.
Read more »