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- From: brownt@seq.uncwil.edu (brown todd francis)
- Subject: Re: Paralysis and Eyes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.192915.29616@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
- References: <93010.173633SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan11.153233.4008@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:29:15 GMT
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- gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
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- >In <93010.173633SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> Senthil Ramas Kumar
- > <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >> Is it true that the muscles that govern the motion of the eye are the last
- >> to get paralysed? I find it interessting, because, when I enter into the
- >> paralysis state, I can very easily still move my eye lids, and still
- >> maintain the paralysis in the rest of my body.
-
- >Stephen LaBerge, who wrote the books on lucid dreaming, says that he and
- >other lucid dreamers are able to move their eyes under voluntary control
- >to signal the onset of a lucid dream, for the benefit of people in their
- >sleep laboratory conducting research. There's some discussion of the
- >subject in his book _Lucid Dreaming_. I think that REM (rapid eye-move-
- >ment) sleep is also an indication of the same set of physiological and
- >neurological facts. The body as a whole is paralysed, except for the
- >normal "tossing and turning" kinds of movements, but the eyes are not.
-
- >Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the subject could take things
- >further.
-
- >Gary
- >--
- > Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
- >Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
-
-
- You are correct, Gary. The paralysis effect during REM is even more
- pronounced than you realize. I have seen films in which it is very
- evident from REM and NO MOVEMENT that the subject is dreaming.
-
- I believe that their is some type of motor response inhibitor to the
- large muscles that is released during REM for obvious survival
- reasons. You don't want to act out your dream movements and injure
- yourself or your sleeping partner.
-
- There is a very interested movie based on this premise. It is worth
- renting or catching on the late show:
-
- DREAM LOVER (1986)
- Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters
-
- After stabbing an intruder, a young woman becomes involved
- in dream research experiments designed to reveal the reason
- behind her act of violence.
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