A review by nic_readsbooks
This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life by Rahul Jandial

informative slow-paced

4.0

I have inadvertently landed on a reading theme this month - dreams. Having read a more creative approach to understanding your dreams; this book offered a contrasting scientific explanation which was interesting to read.

The author draws on his background as a neuroscientist to explore the world of dreams - what are they? Why do we have them?

This book achieves a great balance of delivering scientific explanations but in a way that is accessible and understandable to someone who doesn’t haven’t a great scientific understanding of(me!).

This isn’t a spiritual book but still holds dreams as holding importance in human life. I liked this and felt the author did a great job of offering weight to this area.

Some chapters were more interesting than others and I particularly liked the chapters about types of dreams, themes and I found it really interesting to learn about dreams that are particularly predominant across the world. The information around nightmares was also really interesting.

I think it probably would have been helpful to have more of understanding on neuroscience and I would probably have gained even more from this reading experience if I had this background however I still felt I understood a lot of the book and it didn’t interrupt my reading experience.

This was a fascinating read