Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir

"A lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor" from the author of Sweat: A History of Exercise (Anne Lamott).

We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries—eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don't, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his ...