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Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
Paul Martin
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?
COUNTING SHEEP
The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
PAUL MARTIN
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Contents
Cover (#ua80fc455-2f27-5d7c-9fca-eb9476ae9cb0)
Title Page (#u9107714d-ed60-510f-8976-9b68940ee021)
Copyright (#u8bab2137-8c70-51b4-aad3-c41332c36563)
PART I: PRELIMINARIES (#u534b858d-4b59-5aa3-ab51-070d7768eea6)
1: A Third of Life (#uc050b292-b7ef-520d-9723-b15099ecb4b3)
A sleep-sick society? (#ulink_e2384876-eacb-5ddd-8084-65fbf35183ed)
The universal imperative (#ulink_ed620ba9-9745-5479-9f07-85a8ec6715f3)
Half asleep (#ulink_08143b2d-cd18-50f8-ad75-388778404476)
Nice, not naughty (#ulink_c0444367-682c-53a6-89e9-a12457fba012)
PART II: INSUFFICIENCIES (#ub710fa96-b025-54af-bf3b-5b7d70b3a5a7)
2: Sleepy People (#u85dea0be-480b-570b-aad0-925a575e8049)
Are we sleep-deprived? (#ulink_fe5a0cad-4d97-5b63-a7bb-d9cf7daea491)
Are you sleep-deprived? (#ulink_4147fc1b-77dd-5d2f-9ba6-ab5571ad6dd1)
Reasons for not sleeping (#ulink_d08c104c-673c-54bf-87e4-56c1369891c4)
Ancient and modern (#ulink_e73b743e-63df-5856-a4d6-90093cd1dd70)
Sleepy drivers (#ulink_0643902d-ddb4-5187-8819-0cd9e711ee35)
Sleepy pilots (#ulink_838729e3-6261-5c3b-9997-d00f25214ee1)
Sleepy doctors (#ulink_36b6e00e-5b16-5e6f-9770-a2d0c6b82975)
The madness of politicians (#ulink_6cc25b44-5507-554b-aca7-673fc0d8e902)
Truly, madly, sleepily (#ulink_9d6ee05c-2417-52dd-8ea8-2302adb003cf)
The price of eternal vigilance is liberty (#ulink_69da4085-2e99-5364-b785-5c1b1f2d4f65)
3: Dead Tired (#u30b7ddb6-7431-5612-b355-a029da480b32)
Sleepiness (#ulink_81fa281f-3984-51f4-b95c-dedd4680d9fe)
Fighting the beast (#ulink_46a4edee-a805-5e7f-8889-4f3c6107acdb)
A soil for peevishness (#ulink_35a0e7d1-d74a-5bfe-a66b-b06123da7134)
Tired people are stupid and reckless (#ulink_ef3870d3-3db6-5d18-b4b7-60db998cfccc)
Alcohol, beauty and old age (#ulink_a02e9f05-03d5-5079-b204-3bf3edf53a1d)
Champion wakers (#ulink_75db5262-c5f6-5a34-878a-5723c74b53a2)
Uses and abuses (#ulink_1d3af885-9d46-5d54-ae0b-38ea58ba6325)
4: The Golden Chain (#uffe99068-ecfa-5859-a988-74273041693f)
A waking death (#ulink_6754d5e1-dc33-521d-b290-ac9245933eaf)
Body and soul (#ulink_4dda6a11-388e-5383-bff7-d610f33294aa)
Sleep, immunity and health (#ulink_f4684fd9-9e90-50a3-9042-3bedd31d071d)
The Battle of Stalingrad (#ulink_447371da-4d9c-5f24-ac9a-04c82ed1406c)
Sleepless in hospital (#ulink_706213d3-ec7d-53b4-80e6-565c0cf5b4e3)
PART III: MECHANISMS (#uac3c47f7-b4f2-5ea4-9c81-15fc01e5a6e9)
5: The Shapes of Sleep (#u39a528ce-bde6-5898-a17d-f15c306aec06)
Measuring sleep (#ulink_d9d736a1-548b-542b-9ac6-6d7ca5da5a06)
Falling asleep again, what am I to do? (#ulink_6b3ede10-1c7a-5e9b-8fe7-0cedc375b51f)
The sleep cycle (#ulink_82872f29-2e72-5581-8be5-eabbd536e4ab)
The paradoxical world of REM (#litres_trial_promo)
The sleep cycle continued (#litres_trial_promo)
Waking up (#litres_trial_promo)
The quality of sleep (#litres_trial_promo)
Meditating – or only sleeping? (#litres_trial_promo)
6: Morpheus Undressed (#litres_trial_promo)
The rhythms of life (#litres_trial_promo)
So SAD (#litres_trial_promo)
Larks and owls (#litres_trial_promo)
Genes and sleep (#litres_trial_promo)
A sleeplessness that kills (#litres_trial_promo)
7: Strange Tales of Erections and Yawning (#litres_trial_promo)
Nocturnal erections (#litres_trial_promo)
The mystery of yawning (#litres_trial_promo)
8: Friends and Enemies of Sleep (#litres_trial_promo)
Brother caffeine (#litres_trial_promo)
Sister alcohol (#litres_trial_promo)
Tobacco (#litres_trial_promo)
Food for sleep (#litres_trial_promo)
Exercise is bunk, isn’t it? (#litres_trial_promo)
Things that go bump in the night (#litres_trial_promo)
Shift work (#litres_trial_promo)
Poppy, mandragora and drowsy syrups (#litres_trial_promo)
Hypnotic exotica (#litres_trial_promo)
PART IV: DREAMS (#litres_trial_promo)
9: The Children of an Idle Brain? (#litres_trial_promo)
To sleep, perchance … (#litres_trial_promo)
Do flies dream? (#litres_trial_promo)
A dream within a dream? (#litres_trial_promo)
Dreaming as madness (#litres_trial_promo)
Are dreams meaningful? (#litres_trial_promo)
Like wine through water (#litres_trial_promo)
Can dreams be sinful? (#litres_trial_promo)
10: A Second Life (#litres_trial_promo)
A creative state (#litres_trial_promo)
Stevenson’s Brownies (#litres_trial_promo)
Lucid dreams (#litres_trial_promo)
The great dreamer (#litres_trial_promo)
PART V: ORIGINS (#litres_trial_promo)
11: From Egg to Grave (#litres_trial_promo)
Screaming babies (#litres_trial_promo)
