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Nightmareland : travels at the borders of sleep, dreams, and wakefulness / Lex "Lonehood" Nover.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York] : A TarcherPerigee Book, [2019]Description: xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143132844
  • 0143132849
Subject(s):
Contents:
Sleep paralysis -- Parasomnias -- Sleepwalk murders -- Sleep deprivation -- The nightmare realm -- Hypnagogia -- Psychic attacks -- The alien in question -- Lucid dreaming.
Summary: "From a Coast to Coast AM insider, a mind-expanding exploration of sleep disorders and unusual dream states--the scientific explanations and the paranormal possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 154.6 N941 Available 33111009729787
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From a Coast to Coast AM insider, a mind-expanding exploration of sleep disorders and unusual dream states--the scientific explanations and the paranormal possibilities.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index.

Sleep paralysis -- Parasomnias -- Sleepwalk murders -- Sleep deprivation -- The nightmare realm -- Hypnagogia -- Psychic attacks -- The alien in question -- Lucid dreaming.

"From a Coast to Coast AM insider, a mind-expanding exploration of sleep disorders and unusual dream states--the scientific explanations and the paranormal possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.

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