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Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Science-Into-Fiction) by [Deborah Levy, Adam Marek, M J Hyland, Martyn Bedford, Zoe Gilbert, Andy Hedgecock, Lisa Blower, Claire Dean, Ian Watson]

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The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries, sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient – a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur, an Orpheus-like voyage through the subconscious daubed with the fantastic. But over the last ten years, our scientific understanding of sleep has been revolutionised. No longer is sleep viewed as a time of simple rest and recuperation. Instead, it is proving to be an intensely dynamic period of brain activity: a vital stage in the re-wiring of memories, the learning of new skills, and the processing of problems and emotions.How will storytelling respond to this new and emerging science of sleep? Here, 14 authors have been invited to work with key scientists to explore various aspects of sleep research: from the possibilities of ‘sleep engineering’ and ‘overnight therapies’, to future-tech ways of harnessing sleep’s problem-solving powers, to the challenges posed by our increasingly 24-hour lifestyles. Just as new hypotheses are being put forward, old hunches are also being confirmed (there’s now a scientific basis for the time-worn advice ‘to sleep on a problem’). As these responses show, sleep and the spinning of stories are still very much entwined.Featuring scientific contributions from: Prof Russell G. Foster, Isabel Hutchison, Dr. Simon Kyle, Dr. Penny Lewis, Dr. Paul Reading, Stephanie Romiszewski, Prof Robert Stickgold, Prof Manuel Schabus, Prof Ed Watkins, Prof Adam Zeman, Dr. Thomas Wehr.This project was supported by the Wellcome Trust.

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Penelope A. Lewis is a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester, where she runs the Sleep and Memory Lab. She is the author of The Secret World of Slee.

Ra Page is the cofounder and editorial manager of Comma Press. He is the editor of numerous anthologies, including The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories; Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem; Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science, voted one of 2011's books of the year by the Observer; Morphologies: Short Story Writers on Short Story Writers, and the coeditor of The New Uncanny, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award in 2008.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01AKFUR0C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Comma Press (Jan. 12 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2838 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 223 pages

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Zoe Gilbert is a fiction writer based on the coast of Kent, UK. She is the author of two novels: Folk (Bloomsbury, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and adapted for BBC Radio; and Mischief Acts (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is also the co-editor with Lily Dunn of the recovery anthology, A Wild and Precious Life (Unbound, 2021). Her short stories have been published in anthologies and journals around the world, and have won prizes including the Costa Short Story Award 2014. She teaches creative writing at London Lit Lab and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Suffolk English department. Her fiction is inspired by folklore, myth, nature, local landscapes and the history of ideas. She is currently working on her third novel.
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Collection of stories about people sleeping habits which produced outcomes, but, analysed by highly qualified scientists, sighting up-to-date research and understanding of sleep, the working of the human brain, has given me more information than just reading journals. Enjoyable read.

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