Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams: The Evolution, Function, Nature and Mysteries of Slumber Available to Purchase

For thousands of years, our sleep and dreams have been subject to intense fascination that has generated a wealth of theories and hypotheses that attempt to explain these mysterious states. Influential thinkers and writers from Aristotle and Plutarch to Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf have all offered their take on the subject. In his renowned work of the early twentieth century The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud wrote that “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”. Freud's theories established a baseline which paved the way for substantial further study...