The Sleepyhead's Bedside Companion

What happens in the third of our lives when were slumbering? How have sleepdreams and nightmares been interpreted over the centuries? Why do so manypeople feel ... » 

What happens in the third of our lives when were slumbering? How have sleepdreams and nightmares been interpreted over the centuries? Why do so manypeople feel that they are deprived of sleep? How did our ancestors use tosleep? This book examines why the Italians called the bed the the opera of thepoor. «