Night School：Wake Up to the Power of Sleep

暢銷書《怪咖心理學》作者李察．韋斯曼開設的「睡眠精修班」，讓你睡得好、生活更美妙！

　　你可知道當你呼呼大睡時，大腦都在忙些什麼嗎？英國著名心理學教授，同時也是暢銷書《怪咖心理學》的作者李察．韋斯曼根據最新腦科學研究成果，在新書《Night School》裡與大眾分享睡眠中大腦的真相，同時傳授如何利用人生中三分之一強的時間來改善清醒時的日常生活。

　　作者自科學實驗、問卷調查與全球規模最大的夢境研究資料庫中汲取相關資訊，經過整理、爬梳，以淺顯易懂的文字向大家說明：如何在熟睡時解決白天困擾的問題？惡夢有益身心？夢的真正含義？小憩六分鐘有多重要？如何克服時差？……等問題。

　　研究證實，睡眠品質低落與心臟病、高血壓、肥胖等疾病風險息息相關，睡眠不足也會擾亂生活，導致意外、爭執的發生機率提高。《Night School》提供大腦知識的同時，也能讓人重新正視自己的睡眠習慣、邁入更健康的生活！

　　This is the life-changing new science of sleep and dreaming. Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. Night School uncovers the scientific truth about the sleeping brain - and gives powerful tips on how those hours of apparently 'dead' time in the dark can transform your waking life. Based on exciting new peer-reviewed research, mass-participation experiments and the world's largest archive of dream reports, Night School will teach you how to: learn information and solve problems while you sleep; find out why nightmares can be good for you, and what your dreams really mean; unlock the creative power of the six-minute nap; banish jet-lag, night terrors and snoring; discover the secrets of the 'super sleepers' - and get the best night's sleep of your life. Studies show that even a small lack of sleep can have a detrimental effect on our health, lifespan and happiness. Professor Richard Wiseman's authoritative, entertaining new book introduces the powerful new science of sleep - and gives us back the missing third of our days. Welcome to Night School.

作者簡介

　　Richard Wiseman is based at the University of Hertfordshire and holds Britain's only professor for the Public Understanding of Psychology. He has an international reputation for his research into unusual areas, including deception, luck, humour and the paranormal, is frequently quoted by the media, and his research has been featured on over 150 television programmes across the world, He is the author of the international bestseller 59 Seconds.