Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind [Hardcover]

A leading sleep expert reveals the latest science behind the dreaming brain and why we have nightmares offering key insights into how harnessing dreams can improve your sleep and health.

To most, dreams are things that slip away when we reemerge into the waking world, their remnants jumbled up and only half recalled. At their best, they are populated by pleasant recollections and surreal experiences. But at their worst, they can be traumatizing and prevent us from receiving the necessary benefits of sleep.

So why do we dream at all? What makes a person prone to nightmares? How do our bodies interface with our brains when were not awake? And how can we harness our sleeping minds to improve our waking lives?

InNightmare Obscura, dream researcher Michelle Carr unlocks the science behind the sleeping body. Drawing on her expertise in nightmares, lucid dreaming, and the cutting-edge field of dream engineering, she reveals how we can revolutionize our sleepingand wakinghealth.

Published in the UK asInto the Dream Lab

Michelle Carr is the director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal, and a former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Alongside her research and work as a dream engineer, she has published numerous scientific papers, a popularPsychology Todayblog, and articles forNew Scientist,Aeon, andScientific American.

Unlock the mysteries of your sleeping mind with this journey into dreams. Michelle Carr shows how advances in neuroscience are unlocking the hidden power of our dreams, from taming nightmares to navigating lucid experiences. Dream engineering has arrived, and it might forever change how you see your nighttime self.
David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Stanford University and author ofIncognitoandLivewiredl³*