Dreaming, J. Allan Hobson
Dreaming, J. Allan Hobson
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Dreaming
A Very Short Introduction

Author: J. Allan Hobson

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2021

Synopsis

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

J. Allan Hobson investigates his own dreams to illustrate and explain some of the fascinating discoveries of modern sleep science, while challenging some of the traditionally accepted theories about the meaning of dreams. He reveals how dreaming maintains and develops the mind, why we go crazy in our dreams in order to avoid doing so when we are awake, and why sleep is not just good for health but essential for life.

About J. Allan Hobson

J. Allan Hobson is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Sleep Research Society in 1988.

His major research interests are the neurophysiological basis of the mind and behavior; sleep and dreaming; and the history of neurology and psychiatry, with his most recent work focusing on the cognitive features and benefits of sleep. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including: The Dreaming Brain, Sleep, Consciousness, Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of its Mind, The Dream Drugstore, and Out of its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angelo on June 29, 2018

I never know a book about dreaming could be so boring...........more

Goodreads review by Bojan on May 01, 2012

We all dream, even if we are not aware of it seems like we had stopped dreaming many years ago. The act of dreaming is an integral part of human sleep, and dreams have always been a source of endless fascination and speculation. People in various cultures and time periods have devoted time and effor......more

Goodreads review by Hussain on January 03, 2023

Pretty good neuroscience behind dreaming, not just "dreamy" stuff.......more

Goodreads review by Mats on December 27, 2021

In Dreaming - A Very Short Introduction, J. Allan Hobson accounts for his own theory of dreaming, the activation-synthesis model, according to which dreams are caused by physiological brain processes. It is contrasted with Freud’s focus on the latent dream content: the content is hidden behind a fal......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 12, 2020

A fascinating (albeit somewhat dense and challenging) book on the current scientific knowledge about dreaming, linking the study of dreaming and sleep science to all kinds of adjacent (and some not-so-adjacent) domains: neurophysiology, brain chemistry, psychology/psychiatry (including discussions o......more

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