The secret life of sleep / Kat Duff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Atria Books ; Hillsboro, Oregon : Beyond Words, 2014Edition: First Atria Books/Beyond Words hardcover editionDescription: xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781582704685 (cloth)
  • 1582704686 (cloth)
  • 9781582704692 (pbk.)
  • 1582704694 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.8/21 23
LOC classification:
  • QP425 .D84 2014
Contents:
When the sandman comes: falling asleep -- Opening the inn for phantoms: surrendering to sleep -- Cribs, cradles, and slings: sleeping babies across cultures -- Sleep stages: Western science and Eastern philosophy -- Between sleeps: the midnight watch -- When sleep never comes: insomnia's toll -- Downers, benzos, and z-drugs: the commercialization of sleep -- The social divide: separating sleep from consciousness -- When sleeping birds fly: half awake and half asleep -- The invisible labors of sleep: memory and invention -- Knitting up the "raveled sleave of care": emotional restoration -- Sleep has no master: subversive dreaming -- Ordinary dreams: when one hand washes the other -- Big dreams: encounters with the other side -- Waking up is hard to do: internal and social time -- Enamored with wakefulness: phasing out sleep -- Waking up again: doubt, certainty, and the future of sleep.
Summary: Citing a high percentage of Americans who routinely experience sleep problems or shortages, the award-winning author of The Alchemy of Illness draws on a wide range of disciplines to reveal the healing benefits of sleep and argue for its prioritizing. --Publishers description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236).

When the sandman comes: falling asleep -- Opening the inn for phantoms: surrendering to sleep -- Cribs, cradles, and slings: sleeping babies across cultures -- Sleep stages: Western science and Eastern philosophy -- Between sleeps: the midnight watch -- When sleep never comes: insomnia's toll -- Downers, benzos, and z-drugs: the commercialization of sleep -- The social divide: separating sleep from consciousness -- When sleeping birds fly: half awake and half asleep -- The invisible labors of sleep: memory and invention -- Knitting up the "raveled sleave of care": emotional restoration -- Sleep has no master: subversive dreaming -- Ordinary dreams: when one hand washes the other -- Big dreams: encounters with the other side -- Waking up is hard to do: internal and social time -- Enamored with wakefulness: phasing out sleep -- Waking up again: doubt, certainty, and the future of sleep.

Citing a high percentage of Americans who routinely experience sleep problems or shortages, the award-winning author of The Alchemy of Illness draws on a wide range of disciplines to reveal the healing benefits of sleep and argue for its prioritizing. --Publishers description.

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