percentage of nights with 0 wakings during the baseline period was three percent (equal to one night). During the intervention period it was fifty-seven percent (equal to thirty-nine nights). Data for the intervention period includes three nights during which George was actively sick with the flu. Excluding these three nights on the basis that the baseline period includes no such inci- dence of illness, the resulting figures are as follows: total number of wakings, 35 instead of 41; severity of wakings, 51 instead of 60. Average severity of upset remained unchanged. Average number of wakings per week became 3.8 instead of 4.2. The percentage of nights where George slept through rose to sixty. Severity of wakings during the baseline period totaled 72; during the intervention period, severity of wakings totaled 60. If Super Sleep had no effect, interpolation of data collected during the baseline peri- od would lead one to anticipate a severity-of-wakings total of 153. Average severity of upset when wakings did occur was relatively con- stant throughout the 14.3-week period (i.e., 1.57 versus 1.46). In my opinion, the best conceptual summary of this data is repre- sented by the dramatic increase in the percentage of nights during which George did not awaken during the baseline period as com- pared to that exhibited during the intervention period: three percent as opposed to sixty percent (excluding nights when he had the flu).
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For the first time in the memory of his caregivers, both they and George experienced a majority of nights in which everyone involved slept through the night. It might be hypothesized that the simple addition of some sort of sound to at least a portion of the nighttime environment was enough to produce this change. However, the entire time under discussion (baseline and intervention) included use of a verbal sleep tape, most simply described as repeated stating of positive affirmations concern- ing George's behavior and functioning. This was played for thirty minutes each night after he was put to bed. Ed. note: See HEMI- SYNC JOURNAL, Summer 1990, Vol. X, No. 3, for a more complete description] Additionally and anecdotally, George began going back to sleep after his roommate left for school (a hitherto unknown event), worked harder and more persistently at tasks, spoke more clearly and accepted correction of his speech more readily, listened better and was less easily frustrated, started to enjoy books and to sit still for stories to be read to him, and slept through the opening and clos- ing of his bedroom door. The latter event used to wake him even though the adult detected no sound. Some forms of separation also became easier for him to tolerate—a ten-day absence of his foster mother and father produced no noticeable negative reaction. These all represented new behaviors in George's repertoire or increases in
behaviors that were previously seen with less frequency. Recent reports (as of early September 1991) indicated that George's sleeping behavior no longer represented a problem to himself or anyone else. ‘The Super Sleep tape has been used with a variety of other chil- dren with differing diagnoses and degrees of parental compliance regarding consistency of use. The data-keeping regimens ranged from reasonably complete to anecdotal and the results from totally successful to no effect noted. If this data proves amenable to organi- zation and description, it will be presented in a later issue of this journal. @ THE EFFECT OF HEMI-SYNC ON THE SLEEP OF HYPNOTICS- ADDICTED PATIENTS by Regis Louis, MD Regis Louis is a psychiatrist in private practice in Melun, France, south of Paris. In his practice, relaxation techniques, hypnosis, and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) are used, as well as Hemi-Sync. He also has an interest in transpersonal psychology and is a member of the American Association of Transpersonal Psychology and the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS). In this report he describes « pilot study using Hemi-Sync to improve sleep quality for habitual users of sleeping medications. The intention of this survey was to determine, within my psy- chiatric practice, whether Hemi-Sync technology could help people who were taking sleeping medications to sleep better and perhaps to stop or to reduce drug dosage.