Show id 1 Time To f l r Spare SpareS S f W By GERALD ANDREWS Retirement Adviser The Drama of ot Dreams In one of ot my recent columns I discussed insomnia Judging from my fan mail sleep Is a topic that Intrigues many of you 1 Im I'm m not surprised Only in the past ten years have we really learned about the sleep process thanks to considerable research research re reo search by sleep scientists So I thought Id I'd go a step further fur ther and tell you what I Ive I've ve learned learned learn learn- ed about dreams We all know that sleep gives us time to boost the reserves of ot our tired muscles and other parts of the tho body But did you realize that sleep aso aco refreshes refreshes re re- your mind Yes that's the role of dreaming Studies dealing with dream loss have revealed how each of us needs needs' to dream At the Laboratory Labor atory story of ot at ot Chicago Chi cago rags University research showed that volunteers who ho were waked up be before ore they could dream couldn't couldn t tolerate lack of sleep as aswell aswell well as volunteers awakened after after after af af- ter they had dreamed Both groups had the same number of hours of ot sleep deep during the night Those I who ho slept little but had dreams remained relatively rela rein lively healthy But those who slept little and had no dreams soon coon developed symptoms of anxiety and nervousness Even the mechanics of ot dreamIng dream dream- Ing log are intriguing Were We're asleep but beneath the eyelids our eyes dart back and forth Theres There's Theresa a similarity between the type of dream were we're having and the tho typo of eye eyo movement For example if in our dream we wo see something falling our closed eyes move vertically And if in our dream were we're watching someone walk by our eyes move horizontally Why the need for dreaming As one ono sleep deep scientist put it tt Dreaming provides a symbolic magic fulfillment of repressed and suppressed drives and wishes wish es cs Therefore dreaming is a very valuable solely safety valve for tho the mind In dreaming we wo have the tha opportunity to gratify wishes desires de do sires needs that wo have during the day Whether or not we remember remember re re- remember member our dreams dream when v we a awake isn Isn't t so important tho the fact of ot dreaming is Important Sleep scientists recently studied twenty twenty seven seven subjects aged sixty sixty- six to eighty eight seven eighty seven in tho the area of dream recall They found dream recall was markedly less in older than in younger Some factors liar foe tors affecting dream recall Include Include In In- clude elude repression of ot anxiety depth of sleep and verbal intelligence Tho The ladies tend to have more frequent dream recall than wo we women men Wiio Wilo knows maybe maybo in the next ten years scientists will beable bo be able to tell teU us how to Interpret our dreams But certainly the next few years of research should bring us even greater creater understanding understand understand- ing of sleep changes the tho nature of ot aging and the functions of sleep deep |