Night School by Richard Wiseman
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Night School
- Wake Up to the Power of Sleep
- By: Richard Wiseman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development
Publisher's Summary
Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. Night School uncovers the scientific truth about the sleeping brain - and gives powerful tips on how those hours of apparently ‘dead’ time in the dark can transform your waking life.
Based on exciting new peer-reviewed research, mass-participation experiments, and the world's largest archive of dream reports, Night School will teach you how to:
- Learn information and solve problems while you sleep
- Find out why nightmares can be good for you, and what your dreams really mean
- Unlock the creative power of the six-minute nap
- Banish jet-lag, night terrors, and snoring
- Discover the secrets of the ‘super sleepers’ - and get the best night's sleep of your life
Studies show that even a small lack of sleep can have a detrimental effect on our health, lifespan, and happiness. Professor Richard Wiseman’s authoritative, entertaining new book introduces the powerful new science of sleep - and gives us back the missing third of our days. Welcome to Night School.
Richard Wiseman is based at the University of Hertfordshire and holds Britain's only professorship for the Public Understanding of Psychology
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Julia
One half of a very good book
Would you listen to Night School again? Why?
I’m going to be listening to the back half of this book over and over again. The ongoing research and instructions for lucid dreaming will take time to learn but puts into words something that I have done myself since my teen years.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The idea that your dream life can be a video game of your waking life allowing you to create new paths to go on, to practice and rehearse, and to explore so that you have the opportunity to experience in your waking time a far richer and more confident “time when it counts”.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
How to succeed in Dreamland without really trying
Any additional comments?
The beginning of the book covers the history of sleep research, which I think everyone knows. I enjoyed his retelling of Thomas Edison’s flexibility with the truth as far as how much he in fact slept. Taking another look at The Wizard of Menlo Park’s life as opposed to his legends is pretty common lately but both Peter Noble and author Richard Wiseman gave an especially funny “behind the curtain” look at a not so well known figure in history.
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Kazuhiko
I now try to sleep longer because of this book
I don’t have a problem falling asleep, but I always thought I don’t sleep long enough. This book gave me enough information about the danger of not getting sufficient sleep. For example, brains apparently clean up toxins while we sleep. Imagine what happens if we don’t sleep enough. This is just one example. Brains do all kinds of other processing tasks that don’t happen while we are awake. So, I now trust my brain and let it do what it needs to do, just by sleeping. The book also explains why taking a nap can be so beneficial. The book is full of useful information, and the author has a great sense of humor. The narrator is also excellent. Highly recommended.
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