![]() ![]() A few years ago, he hurt himself when he collided with a wall while sleepwalking. ![]() Randall suffers from the same condition, although of the two of us, he's the only one who's truly suffered from it. My interest arises from my own mild parasomnia, or sleep disorder, one that runs in my family. Randall for writing what must be the most diverting and consistently fascinating book on the topic ever, "Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep." I feel I can speak with some authority on the subject because I've read quite a few sleep books in my time. Only people who can't sleep spend much time thinking about it, and if there's anything more tedious than witnessing another person's nap, it's listening to a keyed-up, obsessive insomniac go on and on about how they can't. Nothing could be duller than watching someone else do it. The better you invoke it, the more likely you are to incite it, and because it can't be remembered, sleep can't be described. ![]() All writing about sleep has this problem of the fundamental human appetites, it's the least exciting. Many susceptible readers nod off the first few times they attempt it. That's not because of its style, which is sublime, but because it describes the experience of falling asleep. The opening scene of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" is one of the most famously difficult to get through in literature. ![]()
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