![]() ![]() This is one book that will not put you to sleep. There's plenty of practical information, like how to overcome insomnia without drugs, how to combat snoring, how to encourage young children to get to sleep and, perhaps most useful, how to bet successfully on professional football games: our circadian rhythms favor West Coast teams over East Coast teams on Monday nights. Randall (Dreamland), a senior reporter at Reuters, chronicles the rise and fall of the Rindge family as well as their fight to. Randall argues that people can commit crimes in their sleep, and that the most important cause of friendly fire deaths in war is soldiers' lack of sleep. Taking readers from military battl Like many of us, journalist David K. ![]() What they apparently do is retard the formation of short-term memory so people taking sleeping pills simply don't remember all the times they wake up. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Equally surprising, sleeping pills yield no higher quality sleep than a placebo. ![]() The range of topics is enormous, from the evolutionary reasons for sleep to the best type of mattress oddly enough, studies suggest that high quality sleep is equally possible on an unpadded concrete floor as on a high-tech air mattress. This fabulous book is likely to address any and all questions you might have about sleep, although, given the state of research in the field, the answers may not be definitive. ![]()
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