When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

by Antonio Zadra & Robert Stickgold

In When Brains Dream Tony Zadra, a professor at the University of Montreal, and Bob Stickgold, a professor at Harvard Medical School, bring us up to date on what the latest scientific research says about dream and dreaming, ending our reliance on popular wisdom based on what Freud wrote more than a century ago. It’s written in an (overly?) friendly style—almost as if you had met them at a drinks party and they were telling you all about their research—but it’s really informative. If you’re interested in sleep in general, the authors also recommend Why We Sleep, the bestselling 2017 book by Professor Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist and psychologist at UC Berkeley.