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Sleep Demons is a beautiful, poetic book that masterfully weaves science with storytelling. Hayes is one of the most peotic writers of recent memory. He weaves the story of his life with the development and findings of sleep science

Sleep Demons is a beautiful, poetic book that masterfully weaves science with storytelling. He weaves the story of his life with the development and findings of sleep science. He is a lifetime insomniac and documents his struggle and ultimate understanding of the meaning of sleep and insomnia in his life. He grew up in Spokane and ultimately moves to San Francisco during the height of the AIDS epidemic. His experiences and description of San Francisco at that time is one of the most beautiful, true representations of that era.

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Bill Hayes has struggled with insomnia since childhood

Bill Hayes has struggled with insomnia since childhood. At eight he began to sleep walk, which he ascribes to the realisation that he was gay. Racked by self-doubt, his young mind was trying to flee toward a dreamed-up boy, with a new story, a different version of myself. As an adult, he sought answers to his troubled relationship with sleep in the life and work of pioneering sleep scientist Nathaniel Kleitman. Like Hayes, Kleitman was a man obsessed with it. First published in 2001 and now reissued with a new preface, this was Hayes’s first book.

Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, pursues sleep as avidly and lyrically as Nabokov pursued butterflies. Sleep Demons is a lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor. San Francisco Chronicle. Insomniacs will love it for the sense of connection and solution; the rest of your (grrr) for its wisdom and wonderful writing.

New York : Pocket Books

New York : Pocket Books. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; americana. A memoir explores the role of sleep, or lack therof, in the author's life, from childhood sleep disturbances to adolescent sleepwalking to adult insomnia, and discusses such topics as narcolepsy, sleeptalking, and sleep apnea.

Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir. We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries-eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don’t, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his own sleep patterns, Bill Hayes marvels, I have come to see that sleep itself tells a story.

We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. An acclaimed journalist and memoirist-and partner of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks-Hayes has been plagued by insomnia his entire life.

Hayes is finally convinced to try and do something about his own insomnia when his partner Steve becomes very .

Hayes is finally convinced to try and do something about his own insomnia when his partner Steve becomes very ill with AIDS himself; the stress of caregiving makes Hayes' usual sleep difficulties even worse, and his growing use of sleeping pills doesn't help. But when the new protease inhibitors give Steve a respite from the disease, Hayes decides that maybe he can give science a chance as well, and goes to a sleep clinic

Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries-eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream .

Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries-eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don’t, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition.