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The oracle of night : the history and science of dreams / Sidarta Ribeiro ; translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
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9781787633827 (paperback)
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Ribeiro, Sidarta
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The oracle of night : the history and science of dreams / Sidarta Ribeiro ; translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
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London : Bantam Press, 2021.
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x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Translated from the Portuguese.
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What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human history. An investigation on the grand scale, encompassing literature, anthropology, religion, and science, it articulates the essential place dreams occupy in human culture, and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave paintings - where the author finds a key to humankind's first dreams, which contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future - to cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at startling and revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry and psychology have made into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning, before revealing what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been confirmed by contemporary research.
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Dreams
Dreams -- Physiological aspects
Dreams -- History
Dream interpretation
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Hahn, Daniel
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Dream interpretation
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Dreams
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Dreams -- History
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Dreams -- Physiological aspects
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Brain
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Fantasy
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Psychoanalysis
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Sleep
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Subconsciousness
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Visions
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