The Mind at Night: The new science of how and why we dream by Andrea Rock, Basic Books/Perseus, $26/£19.99, ISBN 0738207551 Reviewed by Laura Spinney
THE short answer to why and how do we dream is, we still don’t know. But it is looking more and more likely we do it for a biologically useful reason. And memory consolidation is a prime contender.
In The Mind at Night Andrea Rock does a good job of weaving into the story the often colourful characters of the researchers whose work she discusses. As she does so, the domination by the US…
