Overview
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What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon. An invesĀtigation on a grand scale, it encompasses literature, anthropology, religion, and science, articulating the essential place dreams occupy in human culture and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world.
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From the earliest cave paintingsāwhere Sidarta Ribeiro locates a key to humankindās first dreams and how they contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future and our ability to conceive of the existence of souls and spiritsāto todayās cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that contempoĀrary neuroscience, biochemistry, and psychology have made into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning. He explains what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transforĀmation of memory in recall. And he makes clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been elucidated by contemporary research.
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Accessible, authoritative, and fascinating, The Oracle of Night gives us a wholly new way to underĀstand this most basic of human experiences.
This book title, The Oracle of Night (The History and Science of Dreams), ISBN: 9781524746902, by Sidarta Ribeiro, Daniel Hahn, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (August 17, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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