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“Spies and parents never sleep.”

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“The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.”

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“I'm going to bed now, Lovis! Not to sleep. But to think and to curse, and woe better anyone who disturbs me!”

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“I plunged into sleep full force once this arrangement had been made. It was an exciting time in my life. I felt hopeful. I felt I was on my way to a great transformation.”

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“He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted café was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it's probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”

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“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 47) One woman reported to me that she has, at times, had frequent sexual dreams in which a dream orgasm occurred, leading to physical orgasms at the same time. I suspect that these dreams were provoked by the flow of blood to her clitoris during REM sleep.”

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“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 51) Many years later, I read about the phenomenon of hypnopompic sleep paralysis. This phenomenon is rare, but many people have experienced it once or twice in their lives. And a very few people are tortured by it nightly. I have known several people to mention such experiences, all of them expressing the same fearful elements of the phenomenon. We can awaken so abruptly from REM sleep that our natural bodily paralysis hasn't yet had time to wear off. It can take some moments before full bodily movement is regained.”

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