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Night Terrors - Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It (Hardcover)
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Night Terrors - Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It (Hardcover)
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** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **
'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine ... a remarkable debut.'
SUNDAY TIMES Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her
bedroom. Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted
by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence, sinister
hallucinations and episodes of sleepwalking. These are known as
'parasomnias' - and they're surprisingly common. Now a lecturer in
Creative Writing, Vernon set out to understand the history, science
and culture of these strange and haunting experiences. Night
Terrors, her startling and vivid debut, examines the history of our
relationship with bad dreams: how we've tried to make sense of and
treat them, from some decidedly odd 'cures' like magical
'mare-stones', to research on how video games might help people
rewrite their dreams. Along the way she explores the Salem Witch
Trials and sleep paralysis, Victorian ghost stories, and soldiers'
experiences of PTSD. By directly confronting her own strange and
frightening nights for the first time, Vernon encourages us to
think about the way troubled sleep has impacted our imaginations.
Night Terrors aims to shine a light on the darkest parts of our
sleeping lives, and to reassure sufferers from bad dreams that they
are not alone.
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