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An edition of Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams (2003)

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The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams

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Thomas Dunne Books
Language
English
Pages
432

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Sleep disorders, Sleep, Dreams, Sleep, popular works, Sleep disorders, popular works
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Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
2016, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
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Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
2013, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
October 13, 2005, St. Martin's Griffin
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Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
July 1, 2004, Thomas Dunne Books
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Counting Sheep
2003-01-01, Ted Smart
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Counting sheep: the science and pleasures of sleep and dreams
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First Sentence

"Sleep: a state so familiar yet so strange."

Table of Contents

Part I. Preliminaries
Page 1
1:. A Third of Life
Page 3
A sleep-sick society?
Page 5
The universal imperative
Page 7
Half asleep
Page 13
Nice, not naughty
Page 15
Part II. Insufficiencies
Page 17
2:. Sleep People
Page 19
Are we sleep-deprived?
Page 19
Are you sleep-deprived?
Page 24
Reasons for not sleeping
Page 26
Ancient and modern
Page 29
Sleepy drivers
Page 33
Sleepy pilots
Page 38
Sleepy doctors
Page 41
The madness of politicians
Page 43
Truly, madly, sleepily
Page 48
The price of eternal vigilance is liberty
Page 50
3:. Dead Tired
Page 52
Sleepiness
Page 52
Fighting the beast
Page 55
A soil for peevishness
Page 59
Tired people are stupid and reckless
Page 61
Alcohol, beauty and old age
Page 65
Champion wakers
Page 68
Uses and abuses
Page 71
4:. The Golden Chain
Page 71
A waking death
Page 76
Body and soul
Page 78
Sleep, immunity and healthy
Page 79
The Battle of Stalingrad
Page 82
Sleepless in hospital " 84
Part III. Mechanisms
Page 87
5:. The Shapes of Sleep
Page 89
Measuring sleep
Page 90
Falling asleep again, what am I to do?
Page 92
The sleep cycle
Page 97
The paradoxical world of REM
Page 99
The sleep cycle continued
Page 103
Waking up
Page 106
The quality of sleep
Page 109
Meditating - or only sleeping?
Page 110
6:. Morpheus Undressed
Page 113
The rhythms of life
Page 114
So SAD
Page 121
Lark and owls
Page 122
Genes and sleep
Page 127
A sleeplessness that kills
Page 130
7:. Strange Tales of Erections and Yawning
Page 132
Nocturnal erections
Page 132
The mystery of yawning
Page 138
8:. Friends and Enemies of Sleep
Page 142
Brother caffeine
Page 142
Sister alcohol
Page 152
Tobacco
Page 155
Food for sleep
Page 156
Exercise is bunk, isn't it?
Page 159
Things that go bump in the night
Page 161
Shift work
Page 163
Poppy, mandragora and drowsy syrups
Page 165
Hypnotic exotica
Page 168
Part IV. Dreams
Page 171
9:. The Children of an Idle Brain?
Page 173
To sleep, perchance . . .
Page 173
Do flies dream?
Page 178
A dream within a dream?
Page 179
Dreaming as madness
Page 183
Are dreams meaningful?
Page 186
Like wine through water
Page 193
Can dreams be sinful?
Page 195
10:. A Second Life
Page 197
A creative state
Page 197
Stevenson's Brownies
Page 204
Lucid dreams
Page 206
The great dreamer
Page 212
Part V. Origins
Page 219
11:. From Egg to Grave
Page 221
Screaming babies
Page 222
Bad children
Page 229
Yawning youth
Page 233
Old and grey and full of sleep
Page 236
12:. The Reason of Sleep
Page 240
The evolution of sleep
Page 241
What is sleep for?
Page 243
What is REM sleep for?
Page 245
Reverse learning
Page 247
To sleep, perchance to learn
Page 249
Should machines sleep?
Page 254
Part VI. Problems
Page 255
13:. Bad Sleepers
Page 257
An intolerable lucidity
Page 258
Why can't you sleep?
Page 230
Storm and stress and sleep
Page 263
What to do?
Page 265
Staying awake
Page 267
14:. Dark Night
Page 271
Walking and talking
Page 271
Nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis and the Old Hag
Page 274
Moving sleep
Page 278
Midnight feasting
Page 279
Soggy sheets
Page 280
Aching heads
Page 282
Troubled guts
Page 283
Troubled minds
Page 285
Sudden nocturnal death
Page 287
Narcolepsy
Page 288
15:. Pickwickian Problems
Page 291
The wonderful world of snoring
Page 291
Silence is golden
Page 296
Breathless in bed
Page 297
Consequences - mostly dire
Page 303
Unblocking those tubes
Page 308
Part VII. Pleasures
Page 313
16:. And So to Bed
Page 315
A brief history of beds
Page 317
Sleeping partners
Page 324
17:. An Excellent Thing
Page 330
Puritans and hypocrites
Page 330
Naps, nappers and napping
Page 334
Sweet dreams
Page 340
Blessed oblivion
Page 343
Give sleep a chance
Page 344
In praise of horizontalism
Page 346
Acknowledgements
Page 348
References
Page 349
Index
Page 399

Edition Notes

Published in
USA
Copyright Date
2002

Classifications

Library of Congress
QP425 .M345 2004, QP425.M345 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
8.2 x 5.7 x 1.4 inches
Weight
1.3 pounds

ID Numbers

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Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0312327439
ISBN 13
9780312327439
LCCN
2004045056
Library Thing
122061
Goodreads
2453747

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