ABSTRACT
The author reviews four investigations of rapid eye movement (REM) research that relate to analytical psychology: control of sleep by a dual mechanism; selective REM deprivation; effects of drugs on the time of dreaming; and the study of REM state in the earliest stage of postnatal life. The author presents resume of Jung's approach to dreams, emphasizing those aspects which appear analogous to the REM state. He reviews those areas of REM research that relate to analytical psychology. This kind of evidence by analogy is open to disagreement, but there appear some basic parallelisms that deserve attention, if not acceptance. Analytical psychology views the child as being very close to mythological fantasy and dreamlike thinking. The use of the electrophysiological techniques should make it possible to test some of these parallelisms. There seems to be a parallelism covering the basic hypothesis, and there is the need for a reassessment of our psychological understanding of dreams based on the recent research.
