Dream life : an experimental memoir / J. Allan Hobson.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2011], ©2011.

ix, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-291) and index.

[Pt.] I. Biologically speaking : an experimental autobiography. Brain birth : a non-immaculate conception -- Brain growth : the illusion and the reality of being -- Brain state : a self-organizing process -- [pt.] II. My experimental nature. The genesis of my experimentalism -- Marginal modes of being -- Experimental social structures -- [pt.] III. The nature of my experiments. Psychoanalysis as thesis -- Brain science as antithesis -- Cognitive neuroscience as synthesis -- [pt.] IV. Experiments of nature. Brain shock -- Brain death -- Heart failure -- Back ache -- Sleep strangulation -- [pt.] V. Implications of my work. Philosophical implications -- Scientific implications -- Dream science and the humanities -- Functional conclusions.