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ABSTRACT Journey
through the night - SLEEP and its secrets Brigitte
Holzinger & Karina Ressler Mag. Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, Head of the Institute for
Consciousness and Dream Research in Vienna, studied Psychology in Vienna
and California (Stanford). She
is therapy instructor for Integrative Gestalt-therapy at IGWien and is
concerned with research and teaching about "Sleep, Dream and Lucid
Dreams" as well as "Gestalt-therapy" at the Webster
University Vienna and the University of Innsbruck. She also acts as coach, supervisor and trainer in
domestic economy and in public institutions for the subjects "Burn
out & Wellness", "Rhetoric & Communication" and
"Team Development". Additionally she works as clinical and health
psychologist as well as psychotherapist and supervisor in private
practice, manages many research projects, publishes papers and directs
films in the documentary sector. She
works in close collaboration with psychologists, psychotherapists and
sleep laboratories in Vienna´s General Hospital (AKH). Dr. Brigitte Holzinger is a member of the board of ASRA
– Austrian Sleep Research Association -
and of ASD – Association for the Study of Dreams. brigitte.holzinger@chello.at Abstract A
third of our life we spend sleeping - that seems to be a long time of
unproductivity. While sleeping our sensory input is shut down and we are
in a state of bodily rest. But this external inactivity is accompanied by
a highly active brain. What happens, when we leave this world of conscious
being? We all have to sleep, but we don’t know, which world we are
entering, when we are sleeping and why we have to do that. The next
morning, our senses are sharpened, we are refreshed and „ready to go“
again. How does sleep accomplish this? Our
TV documentary presents the opinions of the expert of the field to the
topic described above. People, who are „sleepless“ let us know, what
that means for them and how they try to cope and what kind of sleep
related difficulties we know. We
used animation and computer animation techniques to picture the states and
used classical archive material to allow for an impression about sleep
research and sleep medicine. Our
interview partners concerning sleep research are the internationally
renowned experts in the field, from the US, Israel, Switzerland, Germany
and Austria. The representatives of sleep medicine had to be solely from
Austria, since this production was originally designed for an Austrian
population.
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