This Is Why You Dream

Author Rahul Jandial
Narrator Rahul Jandial
Publisher Cornerstone
Run Time 6 hours and 11 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Cognitive studies, Coping with sleep problems, Family and health, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Popular science, Psychology: states of consciousness, Science: general issues, Society and Social Sciences.

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Uncover the incredible truth of your dreaming brain with Sunday Times bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial

With billions of neurons and trillions of connections between them, the brain is infinitely complex. But one feature of the mind captures our collection attention like no other: dreaming.

Dreams are a source of mystery. They have changed the course of individual lives and the world, spurring business deals, inspiring art and scientific breakthroughs, triggering military invasions and mental breakdowns. Yet the source of dreams is not mysterious. They are the product of normal brain electrophysiology and they follow the circadian rhythms, the day-night cycles that govern all life.

In this pioneering book, bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial delves into decades of research into the dreaming brain and shares stories from his own practice to show the extraordinary impact that dreams have on our waking life. He explains how dreaming of an exam can help you perform up to 20% better, why taking a long nap will make you better at creative problem-solving, and even that acting out your dreams can warn you of serious diseases like Parkinson’s years ahead of other symptoms.

Sharing the very latest discoveries in modern neuroscience, This Is Why You Dream provides answers to some fundamental questions: Why do we dream? How do we dream? What do dreams mean? And perhaps, most importantly, do we sleep in order to dream?

'THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE' Lewis Howes
'TRANSFORMATIONAL' Julia Samuel
'OUR POET LAUREATE OF NEUROSCIENCE' Greg Whyte

©2024 Rahul Jandial (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

This book will change your life. Rahul Jandial dares to explain dreaming and I can think of no one better to take on this challenge. Dr Jandial writes with verve and delivers powerful insights based on science, stories and his personal synthesis of big ideas.

Lewis Howes, author and host of The School of Greatness

A profound and riveting exploration into how and why we dream. Rahul Jandial has done the seemingly impossible – offering deep and bold insights founded on the discoveries of modern neuroscience – and in doing so has written a book that will undoubtedly stand the test of time. Professor Jandial is our poet laureate of neuroscience.

GREG WHYTE, Olympian and author of Achieve the Impossible

In This is Why You Dream, Rahul Jandial does what all brilliant storytellers do – he articulates the unique, complex beauty of being human, in this case while we sleep.

LIZ KILGARRIFF, Emmy-nominated CEO & Founder Firebird Pictures, former Head of BBC Drama

In This Is Why You Dream, author and neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial demystifies and skillfully explains why dreams occur and the marvelous things we can learn from them. After several decades of reading and reviewing books on sleep and dreams, I think This Is Why You Dream is one of the best I’ve encountered. Rahul Jandial writes persuasively and with authority and imagination.

DR RICHARD RESTAK, neurologist and author of The Complete Guide to Memory

This is an important book. The writing is beautiful, the explanations are graspable, and the stories are revealing. The idea that dreaming can help us cope with loss and grief is transformational and reassuring.

JULIA SAMUEL, author of Grief Works

In This is Why You Dream, Rahul Jandial looks inside our head to find purpose and inspiration in work and life.

SOPHIE DEVONSHIRE, CEO The Marketing Society and author of Superfast

How inspiring that dreaming keeps our imagination boundless. For anyone in the arts and creative spaces this is a must-read book and an instant classic.

BRYAN FOGEL, Oscar-nominated filmmaker

A generous guide into the bizarre world of the dreamscape. Rahul is a reassuring companion on this quest to fathom the seemingly unfathomable; he makes complicated neuroscience effortless to understand, kindles our curiosity and rewards us with dizzying revelations. Mind-blowing.

Jackie Higgins, author of SENTIENT

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