PDF-(READ)-Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World

Why is sleep frustrating for so many people Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly In Wild Nights Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleeps hidden historyone that leads to our present sleepobsessed society its tacitly accepted rules and their troubling consequencesToday we define a good nights sleep very narrowly eight hours in one shot sealed off in private bedrooms children apart from parents But for most of human history practically no one slept this way Tracing sleeps transformation since the dawn of the industrial age Reiss weaves together insights from literature social and medical history and cuttingedge science to show how and why we have tried and failed to tame sleep In lyrical prose he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreaus famous cabin at Walden Pond telling the stories of troubled sleepers hibernating peasants sleepwalking preachers cavedwelling sleep researchers slaves who led nighttime uprisings rebellious workers spectacularly frazzled parents and utopian dreamers We are hardly the first people Reiss makes clear to chafe against our modern rules for sleepingA stirring testament to sleeps diversity Wild Nights offers a profound reminder that in the vulnerability of slumber we can find our shared humanity By peeling back the covers of history Reiss recaptures sleeps mystery and grandeur and offers hope to weary readers as sleep was transformed once before so too can it change today. 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