Study of dreams

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33515, 22 April 1974, Page 4

Study of dreams

Nearly 25 years in the average lifetime is spent in sleep. Since scientists have discovered that everyone spends part of his sleeping hours dreaming, people have been eager to learn more about the world of dreams. “Inside the World of Your Dreams", which screens on Monday night, is not just a .documentary about dreams.; Viewers do not passively learn about them, but find themselves in the midst of the dream world. The documentary opens with a time-lapse sequence i of a sleeping woman recorded for eight hours. The, resulting film lasts for about! one minute and shows the constant movement of the body when asleep Not only does one’s bodymove all night, but the eyes make rapid movements for about one fifth of the night, signifying a dream in progress In fact, one of the basic purposes of sleep is to allow one to dream. Sexual fantasies head the. top of the dream chart. Evervone has dreams which make them blush in the

morning. but journalist Molly Parkin is brave enough to share hers with the film audience. Anxiety dreams take second place. with flying' dreams and falling dreams: close behind. The director of the documentary. Lawrence Moore. :touches lightly on the Freudian and jungian inter-: pretations of dreams. But instead of people explaining their dreams, they take part in a simulation of them. Cartoonist Posy Simmonds has a recurring nightmare where she is suspended in ithe ocean Posy and the camera crew braved chilly November temperatures to re-enact Posy's dream of her :standing in the slowly rising ocean. For creative people, dreams carry significance, releasing images and ideas rarely encountered in waking hours. Mike Mclnnerney. who designed the “otherworld" type cover for the rock opera "Tommy", says that he went into a perpetual dream-like trance while he worked.