NFL teams from the east coast lose Monday night games to west coast teams at an astonishing rate. An oil refinery in Texas explodes when workers fail to notice a leak. A man drives across town and attacks his wife's parents, but is unable to remember the crime. What do these stories have in common? The answer is as simple as sleep.
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep is a fascinating collection of facts and anecdotes, from sleep-deprived students who perform better on tests after a nap, to countries like Spain giving up their traditional siestas due to pressures from the global economy, to the way dreams and their interpretation have changed from ancient times through Freud's time to today. Author David K. Randall began his research after suffering bouts of sleepwalking, which his doctor was never able to diagnose, but his book may help readers with their own sleep problems, or at least give them something to think about before they go to bed.
Dreamland joins a growing list of recent nonfiction that is as engaging as it is informative, such as
Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America and
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. You'll learn something and you'll have fun doing it. -
Michelle (Sunset)
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