Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
While We Sleep The Meaning and Function of Dreams and Dreaming
Sam Dickinson · 2021
56/100
👎 Skip It
At 98 pages this is a tidy survey of dream science — it covers REM, Freud, threat-simulation theory, and memory consolidation without going too deep on any of them. For a quick orientation to the topic it does the job, but the author carries no confirmed research credentials and the book has no meaningful critical reception, so it's hard to vouch for it over more credentialed popular-science alternatives.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety82
substance52
craft58
originality48
accuracy50
hype55
age-fit72
human-eye50
Penny’s verdict56
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