The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream

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Summary: Just a Textbook
Review: I 100% disagree with the reviews others have given this book. Actually, I could barely trudge through this book, it was THAT boring. The author has no distinct voice. In fact, it's as if she just looked around the Internet and library and put together a bunch of facts about dreaming. It read like a college student's report... with much too many references to other research. If you're interested in the regurgitated history of dreams, then you might like this book, but I honestly was hoping for something more, not just a textbook.

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Summary: The latest findings on dreaming
Review: Students of psychology interested in the latest findings on dreaming will find The Mind At Night: The New Science Of How And Why We Dream by Andrea Rock provides a blend of all the latest research from neuroscience to psychology. Andrea history of dream research begins in the 1950s and moves to present-day, tracing the discoveries, major theories, and new dream reports from research labs.

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Summary: Fascinating
Review: This book is incredible. I couldn't put it down because I couldn't wait to find out what would be revealed in the coming pages. It's one of those books like "Chaos" or "Guns, Germs and Steel" that changes how you look at the world. What you discover about about how the brain works is amazing. For the first time, I sent an email out to a bunch of friends recommending a book. I did so because I thought so many of them would find it fascinating. On a sentence, paragraph and idea basis, it just flows. It's so alive , so easy to read, and SO INTERESTING.

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Summary: A Dream of a Book
Review: What is the brain's true mission at night? Andrea Rock chronicles the astoundingly varied research by scientists in labs around the world who--aided by by new technologies that enable us to actually see the brain at work--have discovered undreamed of reasons for the mind to carry out its nightly visual odyssey.

Along the way, you'll learn about the unusual sleep pattern of dolphins (only one hemisphere of their brain sleeps at a time); why the functional anatomy of dreaming is almost identical to that of schizophrenic psychosis; how dreaming may serve as a kind of internal therapist, helping us to integrate the emotional experiences from the day; and why that pecuiliar egg-laying mammal known as the spiny anteater may be the key to knowing when the world's first dream could have appeared.

The Mind at Night is itself a dream of a book--its vast research woven into an elegant and quite thrilling narrative of scientists in pursuit of their Holy Grail: an understanding not only of dreams, but of the very nature of consciousness itself.

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Summary: A Marvel of Lucidity
Review: Where did this writer come from? She's top notch.

Rating:
Summary: A Marvel of Lucidity
Review: Where did this writer come from? She's top notch.