Why Can’t We Sleep?: Understanding our sleeping and sleepless minds Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook model of Why Can’t We Sleep by Darian Head.

One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping tablet prescriptions have elevated dramatically during the last three decades and our bookshelves and web browser histories are littered with experts guaranteeing to ‘fix’ our insomnia.

But is this so-called sleep crisis anything new? Our relationship to sleep is definitely irregular and changeable, variously formed by cultural conventions, industrial imperatives and personal psychologies. Look beneath the headlines and it seems that there is absolutely no such issue as an ideal night’s sleep.

Here Darian Head reveals the annals and pathology of sleeplessness – through the industrial revolution to Freudian wish analysis to the fears around blue light in our phones. On the way, he dispels the pervasive common myths and anxieties around this most universal human experience.