R B Gryler

Dream recall as a function of method of awakening.

Psychosomatic Medicine March 1, 1963 A Shapiro, Donald R. Goodenough, R B Gryler

Eleven subjects were awakened from dream periods (defined in terms of Dement and Kleitman's eye-movement criteria) and asked to describe their dream experience. Subjects more often believed that they were awake and/or thinking when the awakening was gradual than when the awakening was abrupt (P <.05). Reports in which the subject believed that he had been awakened from a dreamless sleep were...