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Study Highlights Deep Seated Psychological Impact Of 9/11
Spectacular images of attacks have "changed the way
people dream"
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A new study has revealed that the spectacular images broadcast
around the world on September 11th 2001 have had a profound psychological
impact upon people.
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine
and the Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, have
found that every single person they assessed during a study has
more vivid and intense dreams since the attacks occurred.
Dr. Ernest Hartmann, author of the study, told
Reuters Health that he believes everyone who witnessed
the attacks has experienced some sort of trauma or emotional arousal.
After posting notices on the website of the Association
of Professional Sleep Societies and the International Association
for the Study of Dreams, Hartmann was contacted by 11 men and
33 women, aged 22-70, who had been recording their dreams for
at least two years.
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Each of the participants, none of whom lived in
Manhattan, or had any relatives who died in the attacks, provided
information about 20 consecutive dreams, 10 before 9/11 and 10
after 9/11.
The results revealed that the post 9/11 dreams featured
more intense "central imagery" which is defined in the
study as “an image that stands out by virtue of being especially
powerful, vivid, bizarre, or detailed.”
The study points out that although these images
were not specifically related to planes or buildings, there was
an increase in dreams during which the dreamer was attacked.
In a statement Dr. Hartmann said that this is "very
consistent with findings in people who have experienced trauma
of various kinds."
The study has been published in the February issue
of the journal SLEEP.
Other post 9/11 medical and psychological research
that has previously revealed how the attacks have affected people.
A Mount Sinai
Hospital School of Medicine study that found 200
pregnant women who survived or were nearby when the World Trade
Center towers collapsed passed on "markers" of post-traumatic
stress disorder to their unborn babies.
In addition a Columbia University study found that the women's
babies generally were born earlier, weighed less and were smaller
than infants delivered by other Manhattan women. They attributed
the phenomenon to the
toxic dust and fumes from the site, which included
lead and poisonous hydrocarbons.
A University of California August
2002 study revealed that people continued to experience
high levels of distress almost one year after the attacks. Other
studies revealed similar results, even up to the
present day in 2008.
Researchers within the 9/11 truth movement have previously
suggested that attacks appeared to be engineered
to maximize the psychological impact on Americans, while limiting
the fatalities to a few thousand individuals.
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