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September 17, 2010

Strange But True!

Q. When might the act of waking up bring such joy and exquisite relief that you feel as if you've been reborn?

A. That's the way Stanford University pioneer sleep researcher William Dement described his awakening from an exceptionally vivid and realistic nightmare where he had inoperable cancer of the lung, stemming from his long-time two-pack-a-day habit. “I remember as though it were yesterday looking at the ominous shadow in my chest X-ray and realizing that the entire right lung was infiltrated. I experienced the incredible anguish of knowing my life was soon to end, that I would never see my children grow up, and that none of this would ever have happened if I had quit cigarettes when I first learned of their carcinogenic potential.” When Dement awoke, he vowed to stop smoking — and did.


 
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