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Night terrors : troubled sleep and the stories we tell about it
- Title
- Night terrors : troubled sleep and the stories we tell about it / Alice Vernon.
- Author
- Vernon, Alice
- Publication
- London : Icon, 2022.
- ©2022
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-2601 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 258 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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." --Provided by Publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-2601
- ISBN
- 9781785787935
- 1785787934
- OCLC
- 1338679430
- Author
- Vernon, Alice, author.
- Title
- Night terrors : troubled sleep and the stories we tell about it / Alice Vernon.
- Publisher
- London : Icon, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781785787942
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-2601