The Human Delay

In The Human Delay, a sleep researcher documents a theory that destabilizes the most basic assumption of identity: that consciousness belongs to a single, continuous self. Through a long-term clinical study of one patient diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, the doctor proposes that dissociation is not fragmentation, but interference-the result of overlapping consciousnesses bleeding through during prolonged REM sleep. According to his findings, each personality is not a defense me...