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Although this book was written in the 1930s, it still holds true today. The author, W. W. Atkinson, had a wife who would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and acting out her dreams with such vigor that she would break furniture or attack him violently. Atkinson became fascinated with the question of what happens when we sleep and how dream-experiences are different than waking-life experiences. He decided to study the subject and become an expert on dreams. The book charts his research as he studies waking experience and compares it with dreaming experiences. The first part of the book is about Atkinson's (awake) life as a husband and father. He describes how he enjoys being a family man, but then begins to have nightmare-dreams that lead him to start researching dreams. He consults with a wide range of scientists and researchers, but most importantly he talks with a psychiatrist who has worked up an entire theory of sleep, dreaming, and how each affects the person's waking life. At the end of the chapter he describes what he has learned and how it fits with his observations. The second part of the book is a waking experience where Atkinson talks with people who have had extremely vivid dreams. He asks them to describe their dreams in detail and then asks them to match with a related waking experience. In some cases, people will have a strong match with a past event in their life, but often times they will have trouble connecting with the painting of the dream. These anecdotes are interspersed throughout the rest of the book as he discusses these experiences with his own family members and friends. The third part is about what happens in sleep and how dream-states can be related to past lives. Atkinson talks about several people who start experiencing dreams where they wake up in a past-life. He becomes convinced that these kinds of dreams can be related to prior lives and that there is something in the body or mind that lets us experience our own death. The last chapter is about how we should live our life and why we should always try to “live each day as if it were our last” because we never know when we will die and what will happen next. W. W. Atkinson is an interesting person to study, because he is part of the first generation of dream researchers. His life overlaps with several people who had vivid dreams, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and J.W. Dunne (who wrote the book that gives the film "The Uninvited" its name). The mixing of these very different personalities makes it difficult to study Atkinson's research without wishing for more detail on what they thought about dreaming and what they were thinking about at the same time as they worked on their research. cfa1e77820
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