Counting Sheep
eBook - ePub

Counting Sheep

The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams (Text Only)

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eBook - ePub

Counting Sheep

The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams (Text Only)

About this book

A brilliant overview of that most vital, most underrated and most elusive of human activities, sleep.

Using the approach and skills he deployed to such successful effect on the relationship between mind and body in the prize-winning 'The Sickening Mind', likeable British popular science author Paul Martin here tackles the science of that most mysterious, elusive and alluring of human activities, sleeping, and draws on both cutting-edge neuroscience and classic literature to do so.

We spend one third of our lives asleep, but know hardly anything about it, and can remember so little of it as we come out of it. Why?

Are dreams the place we go to resolve our problems, emasculate our fears and rehearse our hopes? Why are we paralysed when we dream? Why did sleep evolve?

And is anybody getting enough sleep?

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Information

Publisher
Flamingo
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780006551720
eBook ISBN
9780007406784
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Immunology

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Part I: Preliminaries
  5. Part II: Insufficiencies
  6. Part III: Mechanisms
  7. Part IV: Dreams
  8. Part V: Origins
  9. Part VI: Problems
  10. Part VII: Pleasures
  11. Keep Reading
  12. References
  13. Index
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. About the Author
  16. Praise
  17. Also by the Author
  18. About the Publisher

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