Title: This book is not about science
Product review: Any approach to dreaming that is based on the idea that REM sleep is dreaming is just wrong. There is a very interesting state of REM sleep - a state for which we have lots of data from both scanning and animal studies. But there is little or no scientific evidence that dreaming is in any way specially associated with REM sleep. Sleep onset dreams are remembered just as frequently and are just as bizarre - if you don't believe this is so, visit a Salvador Dali painting at your local museum. Deep sleep dreams are more rarely remembered but even more bizarre - have you ever had a night terror? There is no logical basis for neuroanatomical research into REM sleep to be applied to dreaming. A presentation such as this is not based on science, it's based on Hobsons' theory that he calls AIM - a theory without supporting scientific evidence, and a theory that this book perpetuates as "science" when it is in reality scientific myth.
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