"Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep"; By David K. Randall: My Review

There aren't many books out there like David K. Randall's Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep (W.W. Norton & Company; 2012.) This is a real shame.  We need fewer books detailing how angels supposedly talk to us in our dreams and how clean living leads to better sleep and more science books written for the non-scientist.

If you like the Darwin Award series, then you'll get a kick out of this book.  The only problem is that you will want to stay up all night to finish this book rather than go to sleep.

The author began the book because of his sleepwalking problem -- including walking straight into a wall.  Although he never finds a cure for sleepwalking (trust me -- that's not giving away anything) he does discover the massive sleep industry, which covers everything from CPAP machines to devices to keep lab rats awake in sleep deprivation experiments.  In 2012 alone, the sleep industry raked in $32 billion.