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Sleep - Ian Oswald

What is the nature of that mysterious condition called sleep, in which we pass one third of our lives? What part of the brain controls it? How much of it do we need? Are there different kinds of sleep, and is it possible to learn while asleep? And dreams...? Do we dream at all hours? Do the blind see in their dreams? What are dreams? One of the most inexplicable rhythms of life is explained — as far as modern research can explain it — in this Pelican written by a psychiatrist who has specialized in the study of sleep. In this new edition, after the chapters about hypnosis and insomnia (in which there is fresh material on the effects of drugs), Dr. Oswald examines the reasons for sleep, concluding that sleep is a restorative which assists in the synthetic processes underlying the renewal of living tissues (including the brain) and in the growth of the developing child.

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