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What flowered by Orr’s hand, growing from a little cracked place in the steps
Dandelion
What caused Orr to be “sick” in the beginning of the novel
Radiation sickness
Who has the first dialogue in “The Lathe of Heaven”
Mannie Ahrens
What mixture of drugs did Orr take in the beginning of the novel
Barbiturates and Dexedrine
What was Orr’s response to the medic asking “What you been taking?”
“Couldn’t find the fit”
He was referring to a key in which he was trying to shut the door to his dreams
What made the medic suspicious that Orr was using someone else’s pharmecy card
All the drugs were dated to this week
What was the consequence of letting someone borrow your pharmecy card
You will get a reprimand from the police, and HEW Control will keep a check on their Pharm Cards for a year
What happens if Orr didn’t give up the name of the person he borrowed the Pharm Card from
Jail or stuck in Obligatory Therapy
What was the phone number or Pharm card number of Mannie Ahrens
247-602-6023
Where does the medic work
State Housing Complex
What are the kids suffering from in the State Housing Complex
260 kids suffering from kwashiorkor
What is kwashiorkor
Disease resulting from lack of protein
What does the medic do instead of giving them protein
Give them Vitamin C
Why does the medic give the kids Vitamin C
Pretend that starvation is just scurvy
Who said “Ain’t it great to be alive?”
Mannie Ahrens
Who said “Got a whole collection of those reprimand things. They don’t know. I taken things HEW never even heard of.”
Mannie Ahrens
Where was Haber’s office located in the beginning of the novel
An interior Efficiency Suite on the 63rd floor of the Willamette East Tower
Who did Haber mistake Orr initially as while communicating with Penny
A hysteric with leprosy symptoms
Who is the patient who has leprosy symptoms
Mr. Greene
Why does Haber have an interoffice communicator even though Penny is only 3 feet away?
It inspires confidence in the patient and doctor, like a diploma on the wall
When was Haber born
1962
What was Haber thinking about while Orr was going through first time patient routines with Penny?
When the picture of Mt. Hood had been taken
He figures it had been in the 60s and 70s because the blue skies are long before the Greenhouse Effect, although it could just be a modern photograph colored in
What mountains have no more snow anymore?
Everest and Erebus
What did Haber not do when he first met Orr and why?
He did no reach out to shake his hand since many patients dread physical contact
How did Orr feel when walking into Haber’s office for the first time?
He was nervous, fingering his steel necklace
What was the age range that Haber thought of when looking at Orr for the first time
28 - 32
What does Haber offer Orr after he meets him?
He asks Orr if he smokes and offers him some
What is the classic picture of suppressed anxiety
Blinked often
Sitting posture was tense
The positions of his hands were overformal
Described Orr during the first meeting with Orr
What was the rotation of drugs that Orr used
Barbiturates (phenobarb) for a couple of weeks
Switch to dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine)
Then back to barbiturates
Why did orr take Dexedrine on a shorter stretch than phenobarb
It made Orr jumpy
What did Haber think Orr got started on the drugs for?
To treat insomnia
What was Haber’s initial opinion on Orr’s case?
Haber though Orr’s case would be easy, since he had no defenses
What are the side effects of not having enough dreaming sleep
Make Orr irritable
Hungry
Unable to concentrate
Liable to daydreams
Uneven as to reaction times
Forgetful
Irresponsible
Prone to paranoid fantasies
What condition is caused by extreme alcoholism
Central pontine myelinolysis
Central pontine myelinolysis
Its cause is a lesion in the lower brain resulting from lack of dreaming, from extreme alcoholism, not a lack of sleep contrary to popular belief
What is another name for d-state
REM sleep
What does talking with the patient help Haber determine?
It helps him decide how to treat the patient based on if positive or negative conditioning was indicated
What did Haber notice about Orr’s eyes
They were extraordinarily beautiful
What colors were Orr’s eyes
Blue and gray
Were Orr’s dreams prophetic dreams
No, they just simply change things
What age was Orr when he was UNSURE of having an effective dream
16
What age was Orr when he was SURE of having an effective dream
17
What did Orr think Haber was thinking when he said he didn’t want to go to bed with his aunt?
Orr though Haber would be shocked that he wouldn’t want to
How old was Aunt Ethel
30
What was Aunt Ethel disguised as in Orr’s dreams
A white cat
What was Orr’s first effective dream
He dreamed that Aunt Ethel had been killed in a car crash in Los Angeles
What was Aunt Ethel doing the day she got “killed”
She was driving on the Los Angeles freeway, coming home after seeing a lawyer about getting a divorce
Why did Haber rule out Orr as being an intelligent schizophrenic
He lacked the faint inward arrogance of such people, to which Haber was extremely sensitive
Who said “I’m not in the judgement business, Mr. Orr. I’m after facts.
Haber
What did Orr try to help with his dreaming that didn’t work?
autohypnosis
Who said “Who am I to meddle with the way things go?”
Orr
Who first brought up the word “effective”
Orr
Where does Orr work in the beginning of the novel
Draftsman for the Bonneville-Umatilla Power District
What did Orr and his partner pull out of their marriage?
She didn’t want a kid
What was Haber’s idea in treating Orr
To let him dream effectively under the supervision of Haber, to let him control his dreams, learn how to dream safely
What was the only time that Orr got hypnotized before
Dental work
What does Orr wear on his head in addition to being hypnotized
A transcap
What does Orr wearing the transcap ensure?
To ensure sleep and not hypnotrance
Who first started to use the transcap
The Russians
Who refined the transcap
Israelis
What was Haber’s first use of the transcap
On a severely depressed patient on OTT at Linnton
What did Haber mostly hide the dream machine behind plastic paneling?
Many patients either were scared of machinery or overidentified with it
Where does Orr lie on the susceptibility scale
3, right in the middle
Why does Haber use v-c induction
To avoid spending hours in just conditioning a person to enter deep trance
What is the bridge between the waking or hypnotized-trance condition and the dreaming state
Sleep, normal sleep, the s-state, non-REM sleep
How many mental states are there
4
What are the 4 mental states
Waking, trance, s-sleep, and d-state
What 3 mental states all use the subconscious
Trance, s-sleep, and d-state
Looking at the EEG records of the 4 states, what 3 mental states have a lot in common
Waking, trance, d-state
How many times do you enter d-state a night
4-5 times, every hour or two
How long do d-states last
Quarter of an hour, 15 minutes
What mental state is like an engine idling, a kind of steady muttering of images and thoughts
S-sleep
Haber’s field were pioneered by whom
Dement, Aserinsky, Berger, Oswald, Hartmann, and Freud (couch)
What is the deep breathing technique
Count ten when you inhale, hold for five seconds, exhale for ten
What body parts are located under the throat
Vagus nerve and carotid artery
How does Orr enter the hypnotic trance at once
Once he feels Haber’s hand touch his throat
How does sending Orr to sleep make Haber feel?
He was thrilled of enjoyment of his own skill and his dominance over his patient
What does Haber make Orr envision during the first hypnotic session
A crystal ball
What would Haber regularly talk and ask questions while Orr was imagining the crystal ball?
So Orr would not drift off into sleep yet until it was time
How many electrodes were on the transcap that related to the EEG
8
What was common of certain schizoid personality types on the EEG
Sigmoid jags
What happens when Haber tells Orr to stop seeing the crystal ball
A strong, clear alpha trace at 12 cycles appears on the EEG
What did Haber mistake Orr’s name as
John
What word does Haber use to send Orr to sleep
Antwerp
What does Haber do to get Orr to wake up
Say his name 3 times
What is the theta rhythm
Rhythm produced by the hippocampus through a 5 second cycle
Why did Orr know that the horse in his dream could not hurt him?
It was the horse on Haber’s wall and not a real horse
Who said “a life-size sex symbol right opposite the couch!”
Haber
What was Orr’s first effective dream with Haber
Changed the Mount Hood painting to a horse
Who is the horse on Haber’s wall and what does it represent?
It is Tammany Hall
It serves as an ideal for what a psychiatrist strives to achieve
strength, vigor
Why were horse races not a thing anymore
The horses got crowded out by our food problems
How many percent of the population gets VTT
82%
How many percent of the population gets OTT
31%
What drug did Haber give Orr after the first session
Prescription for meprobamate
After how many days can Orr refill the prescription of meprobamate
Every 3 days
Orr could have afforded to buy what car
VW Steamer
What subway did Orr take back to Portland
Vancouver subway
What does [c] mean in “The Lathe of Heaven”
Force of crowding
What does [g] mean in “The Lathe of Heaven”
Force of gravity
The person holding the newspaper on the subway was reading what section
The sports section
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