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Rosalind Dymond Cartwright, whose groundbreaking research on sleep prompted other scientists to crown her “the Queen of Dreams,” once said her remarkable career was inspired by conversations heard at the family dinner table growing up.
“Well, my mother was a big dreamer, and she loved to tell her dreams at the dinner table and intrigue us all with decoding the images, and she used her dream images very much in her poetry,” she said for a Sleep Research Society oral history. “And my father would sit there and shake his head in wonder and say, ‘Stella, you have such an interesting nightlife!’ ”