Basal skin resistance during sleep and "dreaming".
Basal skin resistance was measured continuously in sleeping human subjects. Instead of a hypothesized fall in basal skin resistance during periods of "dreaming" or emergent stage 1 electro-encephalographic activity, there was a rise which generally coincided with the "dreaming" period. This finding, along with other recent studies, indicates that this stage of sleep is not just a light stage of sleep but is unique neurophysiologically.
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D004325:Dreams; D006801:Humans; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012895:Sleep, REM
DREAMS; SKIN/physiology; SLEEP/physiology