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    Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean
    Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean
    Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean
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    Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean

    By Marcia Malory

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    Why do we dream?

    Since ancient times, people have been trying to understand what causes dreams and what dreams mean. Now, science gives us answers.

    Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean provides a clear, yet detailed explanation of the latest scientific research on sleep and dreaming.

    Learn about

    The sleep cycle and the relationship between REM sleep and dreaming

    What 21st century neuroscience says about dreams

    The effect of evolution on dreaming

    Dreaming and memory

    What happens in the brain during lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness, such as sleep paralysis and out of body experiences.

    Do you want to find out more about dreams? Are you interested in science and the workings of the human mind? If you want to know what science tells us about how and why we dream, this book is for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarcia Malory
    Release dateAug 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301832781
    Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean
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    Marcia Malory

    Marcia Malory is a science writer who specializes in writing about cognition, consciousness and the effect of science on society.She has been a guest blogger for Scientific American and Nature. Her science writing appears on the websites Red Orbit, Physorg and Medical Xpress.Born in New York City, she now lives in York, England.

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      Dream Science - Marcia Malory

      Dream Science: What Your Dreams Really Mean

      By Marcia Malory

      Copyright 2012 Marcia Malory

      Cover Illustration by Jonathan Malory

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      * * * *Table of Contents * * * *

      Introduction

      Chapter One: What are dreams?

      Chapter Two: REM and the sleep cycle

      Chapter Three: REM and dreams

      Chapter Four: What if dreams don’t mean anything?

      Chapter Five: Evolution

      Chapter Six: Memory

      Chapter Seven: Virtual worlds

      Chapter Eight: Lucid dreams

      Chapter Nine: Altered states

      Chapter Ten: The meaning of dreams

      References

      * * * * Introduction * * * *

      This book is different from any book about dreams you’ve ever read.

      It won’t tell you how your dreams can win the lottery.

      This book won’t teach you how to use your dreams to meet the love of your life, salvage a failing relationship or make your boss give you a raise.

      When you’ve finished reading it, you won’t be able to predict the future or have a relationship with God that’s any closer than the one you have now.

      However, you will know more about why you dream and how dreaming can benefit you.

      Dreams are important.

      Since ancient times, dreams have played a prominent role in literature, music, art, philosophy and religion.

      All human beings – except for a very small number of people with severe brain damage – dream.

      It’s likely that our pets dream. They experience the brain states associated with dreaming, and they certainly look like they dream.

      Scientists are creating ways to look at the dream images created by our brains. Perhaps one day we will be able to see our pets’ dreams and others will be able to see our dreams.

      This is a book about the science of dreams – what scientists know about how and why we dream.

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      * * * * Chapter One: What are dreams? * * * *

      Some dictionaries and encyclopedias say that a dream is an image or sensation experienced during sleep. 

      A dream is more than that. It’s more than music, noises, flashing lights, bright colors or sweet-scented perfumes.

      It’s a story you tell yourself when you’re asleep.

      Yes, dreams are stories.

      When people share dreams – when Australian aborigines take part in a dream sharing and when your sister tells her latest dream to her best friend – they are telling stories.

      What is a story? It’s a series of events connected in some way. The connection

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