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By Michel Jouvet
How discoveries approximately sleep and dreaming could have been made: a unique via a pioneering sleep researcher casts an eighteenth century aristocrat as its medical and romantic hero.
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Why did a dream need an extensive spatial scenario, like being in a theater where I was an actor or spectator? Some dreams were so precise that I noted whether the actors were on the right or the left. I closed my eyes again and pressed them with my fingers, trying to imagine the stage of the theater at Padua where Spallanzani had invited me, then the Coliseum in Rome. Each time, I felt tiny movements of my eyeballs, seemingly following the wanderings of my imagination. If my eyes were moving, I reasoned, my retina must be responsible for the images, but it seemed unthinkable that my retina should contain the memory of all my visual impressions.
Following this voyage he tried to introduce sugarcane in the Dombes, which proved a dismal failure. After 1766, Monsieur la Scève had marital difficulties and undertook many voyages with numerous mistresses. 21 chapter 3 Also at this time, he was seen more and more often in the disreputable areas of Lyon around the church of St. Nazaire. He was apparently friendly with a lascivious girl from Martinique named Manuela, whom he visited regularly after meetings of the Naturalists’ Circle. There is no reason to believe, however, that he was exploiting this girl.
I refuse. September 8 Fifth evening. I stopped in a small village on the borders of Hesse and Thuringia. I met a Russian gentleman with his wife, Iura. She was a pretty woman, and we drank a lot of beer. I only had one dream that night. I am in the Jura mountains where I meet some local folk who recount the exploits of Captain Lacuzon during the war against the French and the Swedish about a hundred years ago. Upon waking I realized that the Jura must have been related to the pretty Russian’s name, Iura.