THE SCIENCE OF DREAMS: THE HIDDEN ARCHITECTURE OF THE SLEEPING MIND (Health Care and Clinical Research)

Every night, your brain builds a world from scratch — furnished with rooms, populated with characters, governed by its own elastic physics — and you believe it completely. By morning, almost all of it is gone.In The Hidden Topology of Dreams, Boris Kriger reveals the astonishing architecture behind this nightly vanishing act. Drawing on a rigorous mathematical framework published in the companion monograph The Topology of REM Mentation (Dreams), available on Amazon, Kriger translates twenty-one interlocking components of dream science into vivid, equation-free prose. Why do you keep returning to the same impossible house? Because your spatial memory has attractor basins, grooves worn by a lifetime of experience, and the dream generator falls into them like a marble into a bowl. Why are dreams so dark? Because the content most vigorously suppressed during the day is the content most readily released at night. Why can you not tell you are dreaming? Because the reality-testing system runs on the same machinery that dreaming disables.From the emotional construction of dream architecture to the startling parallels with artificial intelligence, from the melting clocks of dream time to the unsettling discovery that your memories may be partly dreams, this book takes the reader on a journey through the hidden structure of the sleeping mind — playful, rigorous, and impossible to forget.Even if your dreams are not.dreams, consciousness, neuroscience, memory, sleep, topology, imagination Read more