Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams

Bad children (#litres_trial_promo)

Yawning youth (#litres_trial_promo)

Old and grey and full of sleep (#litres_trial_promo)

12: The Reason of Sleep (#litres_trial_promo)

The evolution of sleep (#litres_trial_promo)

What is sleep for? (#litres_trial_promo)

What is REM sleep for? (#litres_trial_promo)

Reverse learning (#litres_trial_promo)

To sleep, perchance to learn (#litres_trial_promo)

Should machines sleep? (#litres_trial_promo)

PART VI: PROBLEMS (#litres_trial_promo)

13: Bad Sleepers (#litres_trial_promo)

An intolerable lucidity (#litres_trial_promo)

Why can’t you sleep? (#litres_trial_promo)

Storm and stress and sleep (#litres_trial_promo)

What to do? (#litres_trial_promo)

Staying awake (#litres_trial_promo)

14: Dark Night (#litres_trial_promo)

Walking and talking (#litres_trial_promo)

Nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis and the Old Hag (#litres_trial_promo)

Moving sleep (#litres_trial_promo)

Midnight feasting (#litres_trial_promo)

Soggy sheets (#litres_trial_promo)

Aching heads (#litres_trial_promo)

Troubled guts (#litres_trial_promo)

Troubled minds (#litres_trial_promo)

Sudden nocturnal death (#litres_trial_promo)

Narcolepsy (#litres_trial_promo)

15: Pickwickian Problems (#litres_trial_promo)

The wonderful world of snoring (#litres_trial_promo)

Silence is golden (#litres_trial_promo)

Breathless in bed (#litres_trial_promo)

Consequences – mostly dire (#litres_trial_promo)

Unblocking those tubes (#litres_trial_promo)

PART VII: PLEASURES (#litres_trial_promo)

16: And So to Bed (#litres_trial_promo)

A brief history of beds (#litres_trial_promo)

Sleeping partners (#litres_trial_promo)

17: An Excellent Thing (#litres_trial_promo)

Puritans and hypocrites (#litres_trial_promo)

Naps, nappers and napping (#litres_trial_promo)

Sweet dreams (#litres_trial_promo)

Blessed oblivion (#litres_trial_promo)

Give sleep a chance (#litres_trial_promo)

In praise of horizontalism (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

References (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)