The sleeping mind is a mysterious backdrop that science is just beginning to shed light on. It was only some sixty years ago that researchers discovered REM, the rapid-eye-movement cycle that''s associated with dreams. In NIGHTMARELAND, Lex "Lonehood" Nover travels into the eerie borderlands where the unconscious, dreams and strange entities intermingle under the cover of night, revealing wider and hidden aspects of ourselves, from the savage and frightening to the astounding and sublime.Encompassing accepted medical phenomena such as sleep paralysis, parasomnias and Ambien "zombies" and the true-crime casebook of those who kill while sleepwalking, to supernatural elements such as the incubus, alien abduction and psychic attacks, Nover brings readers on an extraordinary journey through history, folklore and science, to help us understand what happens when we sleep.


Format Häftad Omfång 304 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. Utgivningsdatum 2019-10-08 ISBN 9780143132844