Everyone sleeps and everyone dreams, yet we are almost entirely unconscious of what is happening to us when we sleep, and we forget almost all of our dreams.
This third edition of a classic introduction provides a fascinating insight into this most universal of subjects, critically analysing recent research by psychologists and neuroscientists (much of which has been published in the last ten years) and reviewing historical and cultural beliefs about dreams.
Sleep and Dreaming thus acts as both a comprehensive, rigourous text for students and a rewarding and engaging introduction to the field for the interested lay reader.
About the Author DR JACOB EMPSON is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hull.
He is the author of Human Brainwaves (Macmillan, 1986) and many academic papers on sleep, biological rhythms and human factors.
