The New Science of Dreaming

Of the making of books there is no end, and all (or most) is vanity. Vast quantities of books are published every year, on every subject under the sun, in spite of the growth of electronic forms of communication. Since time immemorial a sizeable proportion of this monstrous flow of writing has been on the subject of dreams. The Bible is full of them, but so is all the other early literature known, from all human cultures. As soon as the Sumerians learned to scrape patterns on clay tiles, they started scratching out interpretations of their dreams. Rupprecht suggests in...