On one hand, they bring a human touch into this largely academic work, and the mixing of the two is intriguing. AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine .

A wonderful deepdive into the world of dreams and the science to explain them throughout the centuries. I think it shows how essential it is for us teachers to remember how we teach is just as important as what we teach and how huge is the impact we can make to a person's life.Vernon expertly blends history with science, interweaving her own personal experiences with that of the terrible events of the Salem Witch Trials and the Victorian love affair with the macabre among others. It considers case studies, surveys, works of literature, paintings, and movies, with the knowledge that parasomnias tell stories about the people who experience them and about the sociocultural contexts they exist in. Famous novels such as ‘Dracula’, ‘Jane Eyre’ and the Brother Cadfael mysteries all make reference to parasomnias, as does Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. She liked to say that her only qualification was curiosity, but as this timely reissue of her bestselling 1941 memoir proves, she also had courage, tenacity and a flair for observation. She is now a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Creative Writing in the department, teaching students the fundamentals of storytelling.

A fascinating look at the different form s of parasomnia and the ways they have been recorded and interpreted in history. Along the way we explore the Salem Witch Trials and sleep paralysis, Victorian ghost stories, and soldiers’ experiences of PTSD. Parasomnias are surprisingly common and will be experienced by as many as 70% of people at some point in our lives.I just heard Dr Alice (the author) on Radio Wales and her voice was far superior for doing this type of content. Maybe next time I have one of those really stressful dreams about owning multiple hamsters that have escaped into the garden, I'll lucid dream and imagine I'm in a giant hamster cage or something. For insomniacs, the bed is a cruel tormentor; for those of us with parasomnias, the bed is a haunted crypt. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The author walks that fine line between sprinkling in subjective experience, and working on her trauma in public, and the whole thing doesn't quite gel together in my opinion.

Her anecdotes range from funny (while sleepwalking as a teenager, she told her mother that she needed to take a cake to Gwen Stefani) to terrifying (feeling phantom hands on her neck or dragging her out of bed by her ankles). We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.