Memory and Dreams by George Christos, Rutgers University Press, $29, ISBN 0813531306 Reviewed by David Cohen
DREAMS are accompanied by frenetic brain activity, so why don’t we act them out in our sleep? It seems there is a clutch of nerve cells responsible for stopping signals from the brain getting through to muscles in the body during sleep. To prove this, researchers removed these nerves from a cat and observed it prowl around its cage as if stalking prey, while fast asleep. They concluded the cat was acting out its dreams.
George Christos presents this and other results as a…
