{"product_id":"dreaming-as-delirium-how-the-brain-goes-out-of-its-mind-9780262581790","title":"Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. Allan Hobson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Neuropsychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling--and controversial--theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling--and controversial--theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying theme is that the form of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and memories derive from specific nerve cells and electrochemical impulses described by neuroscientists. Among the questions Hobson explores are: What are dreams? Do they have any hidden meaning, or are they simply emotionally salient images whose peculiar narrative structure refects the unique neurophysiology of sleep? And what is the relationship between the delirium of our dream life and psychosis?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Little, Brown under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Chemistry of Conscious States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614543888535,"sku":"9780262581790","price":4536.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262581790.webp?v=1775094479","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dreaming-as-delirium-how-the-brain-goes-out-of-its-mind-9780262581790","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}