The Mind At Night

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Title: The Mind At Night
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The New Science Of How And Why We Dream

This exceptionally lucid and engaging work of science writing explicates

breakthroughs in the study of the dreaming mind from the 1950s to the present

day. Rock, an award-winning medical and science reporter, proves a crisp and

thorough storyteller as she portrays the professional tensions among scientific

innovators and delineates theoretical controversies (in which the legacy of

Freud looms large). She frequently cites interviews with neuroscientists and

psychologists, bringing out the drama of their intellectual struggles. Opening

with the discovery of the REM phase of sleep by a lowly University of Chicago

graduate student, Rock charts the subsequent explosion in dream research:

investigations into the roles of different parts of the brain in dreaming;

theories of animal dreaming and the evolutionary history of dreaming; the nature

of memory; and the neurological relationships among dreaming, mental illness and

consciousness itself. Examples of dreams are kept to a relevant minimum, but

many statistics of interest are reported. In Rock's concluding chapters, a

seamlessly narrated account of a period of sustained scientific focus on the

dreaming mind eases into a broader discussion of the function of dreaming in the

context of contemporary scientific findings and beliefs. Here Rock discourages

simplistic dream-symbol decoding in favor of a more complex approach enlightened

by present-day theories.

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