Download Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep (Science-into-Fiction) AudioBook Free
The partnership between sleeping and storytelling can be an ancient one. For years and years sleeping has provided freelance writers with a wonderful ingredient, a passage of time during which great changes miraculously arise, an Orpheus-like voyage through the subconscious daubed with the fantastic. But during the last 10 years, our scientific understanding of sleeping has been revolutionised. No longer is sleep seen as a time of simple rest and recuperation. Instead it is showing to be an intensely strong amount of brain activity: a essential stage in the rewiring of recollections, the learning of new skills, and the handling of problems and emotions. How will storytelling react to this new and appearing science of sleeping? Here, 14 authors have been invited to work with key researchers to explore various areas of sleeping research: from the possibilities of sleep anatomist and overnight therapies to future-tech ways of harnessing sleep's problem-solving capabilities to the difficulties posed by our ever more 24-hour lifestyles. Equally new hypotheses are being put forward, old hunches are also being affirmed (there's now a methodical basis for the time-worn advice to sleeping on a problem). As these replies show, sleeping and the spinning of stories are still very much entwined. Also displaying reviews by Lisa Blower, Annie Clarkson, Claire Dean, Zoe Gilbert, Andy Hedgecock, Sarah Schofield, Ian Watson, Lisa Tuttle, Adam Roberts, and Adam Marek, and methodical contributions from sleeping researchers Prof Russell G. Foster, Dr. Isabel Hutchison, Dr. Simon Kyle, Dr. Penny Lewis, Dr. Paul Reading, Stephanie Romiszewski, Prof Robert Stickgold, Prof Manuel Schabus, Prof Ed Watkins, Prof Adam Zeman and Dr. Thomas Wehr. This task was backed by the Wellcome Trust.
