Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean

Why do we dream?

Since ancient times, people have been trying to understand what causes dreams and what dreams mean. Now, science gives us answers.

Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean provides a clear, yet detailed explanation of the latest scientific research on sleep and dreaming.

Learn about

The sleep cycle and the relationship between REM sleep and dreaming

What 21st century neuroscience says about dreams

The effect of evolution on dreaming

Dreaming and memory

What happens in the brain during lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness, such as sleep paralysis and out of body experiences.

Do you want to find out more about dreams? Are you interested in science and the workings of the human mind? If you want to know what science tells us about how and why we dream, this book is for you.

Auteur

Marcia Malory is a science writer who specializes in writing about cognition, consciousness and the effect of science on society.

She has been a guest blogger for Scientific American and Nature. Her science writing appears on the websites Red Orbit, Physorg and Medical Xpress.

Born in New York City, she now lives in York, England.