Books like Dream Drugstore by J. Allan Hobson

Michel Jouvet, perhaps the world's leading researcher on sleep and dream research, is considered responsible for the discovery of paradoxical sleep - a "new" third state of the brain as different from normal sleep as sleep is from waking. In The Paradox of Sleep, Jouvet takes the reader on a scientific and sociological tour of the history of sleep and dream research, concluding with his own ideas on the function of dreaming.

A collection of papers from a science conference focusing on consciousness and its study.

"In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling - and controversial - theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying theme is that the form of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and memories derives from specific nerve cells and electrochemical impulses described by neuroscientists. Among the questions Hobson explores are, what are dreams? Do they have any hidden meaning, or are they simply emotionally salient images whose peculiar narrative structure reflects the unique neurophysiology of sleep? And what is the relationship between the delirium of our dream life and psychosis?"--BOOK JACKET.