Description
| Product ID: | 9780143132844 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Nightmareland |
| Subtitle: | Travels at the Borders of Sleep, Dreams, and Wakefulness |
| Authors: | Author: Lex Lonehood Nover |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal, Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. |
| Publisher Name: | J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-08 |
