DISCUSSION: Dr. Sylvia Brody, from observations of infants in the second to the fourth day of life, has not observed erections during regular or quiescent sleep, but has observed them, along with other motor discharge patterns, during the irregular or REM period of sleep. The erections, however, were evanescent and difficult to evaluate. She felt it was auto-erotic tension which was discharged, indicating a link between vital functions and instinctual drives. She pointed out that the capacity for kinesthetic, auditory, and visual sensation is