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He specializes in sleep and dreams and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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Deirdre Barrett, PhD, is a dream researcher and currently teaches two courses on dreaming at Harvard University. She is a Past President of both the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. Dr. Barrett has written five books: Pandemic Dreams, Supernormal Stimuli, Waistland, The Committee of Sleep, and The Pregnant Man & Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist’s Couch. She is an editor of four additional books: The New Science of Dreaming, Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, and Trauma and Dreams. Dr. Barrett has published academic articles and chapters on health, hypnosis, and dreams, and evolutionary psychology.She is Editor in Chief of the journal Dreaming: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams and a Consulting Editor for Imagination, Cognition, and Personality and The International Journal for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
Remember how the body first prioritizes catching up on non-REM sleep after a bit of sleep loss?
On nights when were catching up on sleep, we have greater REM density, says Dr. Barrett.
Usually, these dreams arising during REM rebound arent exactlygreator high-quality, according to Dr. Naiman.
But in REM rebound?
The longer you sleep on your catch-up days after sleep loss, the more potent that effect can be.
And with that additional time in REM, the brain can spin more elaborate dreams to boot.
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