Night School [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2014] Richard Wiseman by Richard Wiseman

From the beginning, the two got along well and on Singh's idea, ended up creating a show together called Theatre of Science. The segment spanned TV, radio and print and featured a 'politician making a statement, and letting the public vote on whether they thought this figure was telling the truth in each medium.' It was the first time that Wiseman and Singh met. In his early years at the University of Hertfordshire, Wiseman partnered with Simon Singh on a BBC segment about lying for the National Science Week. He went from there to the University of Hertfordshire, becoming Britain's first professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology. In his years as a street performer he learned how to adapt or get out of what you are doing because 'Sometimes you would start your act and after five minutes there was no audience.' He moved to Edinburgh where he obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh for research supervised by Robert L. He shared accommodation as a student with Adrian Owen, later also to become a psychologist. It is now time for us all to unlock that missing third of our days.-Richard Wiseman, Interview The Scotsman Īt 18 he continued as a street performer and went to University College London to study psychology, partly because it 'was right around the corner'. For years the self-development movement has focused on improving people's waking lives. Carrying out his own nocturnal mass participation studies along the way, Wiseman presents the definitive guide to the surprising new science of sleep and dreaming. Professor Richard Wiseman journeys deep into this dark world and meets the vampire-like scientists who go to work when everyone else is heading for bed. Until now, these discoveries have been restricted to academic journals and University conferences.

This work has resulted in a series of remarkable techniques that can help people to recognize dangerous levels of sleep deprivation, get a great night's sleep, avoid nightmares, learn in their sleep, take productive power naps, decode dreams, and create a perfect nocturnal fantasy. In fact, it is the busiest time of the day.įor the past sixty years, a small number of scientists have dedicated their lives to studying the sleeping mind. The idea that millions of years of evolution resulted in this ability for no reason at all is ludicrous. Almost every animal enjoys some form of sleep. Yet every human on the planet spends several hours each day asleep. A time when we are literally doing nothing.

Night School [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2014] Richard Wiseman by Richard Wiseman