Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It

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Paperback | 272 pages129 x 198 x 18 | 206g

From episodes of sleepwalking to hallucinations of sinister figures in her bedroom, her nights are often eventful and sometimes frightening. Along the way she explores the Salem Witch Trials and sleep paralysis, Victorian ghost stories, and soldiers' experiences of PTSD. Night Terrors aims to shine a light on the darkest parts of our sleeping lives, and to reassure sufferers from bad dreams that they are not alone. Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence, sinister hallucinations and episodes of sleepwalking. ' SUNDAY TIMESAlice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom.

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