EAN: 9781785788680

NIGHT TERRORS - ALICE VERNON TASCHENBUCH

** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 ** Curious  lively  humble  utterly
genuine ... a remarkable debut. SUNDAY TIMES Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in
her bedroom. 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. Night Terrors aims to shine a light on the darkest parts of our
sleeping lives  and to reassure sufferers from bad dreams that they are not alone.

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