HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025106 Pardon the formality below - I want to approach your very legitimate questions / concerns in a serious manner. Attached and below the same. Dear Jeffrey: As requested, the following addresses your two questions / concerns about our proposed Closer To Truth TV series "The Science of Sleep and Dreams": (i) Have there been sufficient breakthroughs in Sleep and Dreams (significantly beyond traditional understandings) to justify a major TV series? (ii) Even if 'yes' to (i), is now the proper time for such a foundational series, or are more years needed for corroborative studies and further research to solidify the breakthroughs? In preparing this response, my primary source is Professor Patrick McNamara, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, with whom CTT Producer/Director Peter Getzels and I spoke with at length today. Patrick is one of the leading sleep and dream researchers (he himself more dreams). More importantly, he is perhaps the leading chronicler of the field, with many publications (including 26 entries in related encyclopedias). He is co-editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams" (2012) and the sole author of the forthcoming "An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams" (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which intends to present the latest science and to become a main textbook for graduate courses/seminars. Patrick is a CTT contributor and colleague. When we asked Patrick, his first response — "This is the ideal time to tell the sleep-and-dreams story" — and he cited (in essence) your two questions, in that (i) the multiple breakthroughs are now sufficiently well corroborated by numerous independent labs such that a substantial foundation for the new, deeper understanding of sleep and dreams is now for the first time (over the past few years) confirmed and established, and (ii) there are now interesting application and critical clinical questions to pose, explor