Volume 36, Number 10 · June 15, 1989
What Dreams Are Made Of
By B.A. Farrell
The Dreaming Brain
by J. Allan Hobson
Basic Books, 319 pp., $29.95
Dreams have been explained as divine revelations, as prophecies, as messages revealing that the dreamer's soul has temporarily left his body to roam. According to the Azande of Central Africa, when a person has a bad dream, he is experiencing the efforts of a witch to devour the soul of his flesh.[1] But dreams have also been the subject of extensive rational and scientific inquiry, and The Dreaming Brain is the most recent scientific attempt to explain an experience that has always attracted and yet defeated explanation.
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