About This Book
Nightmare Obscura (2025) explores the science of dreaming and why nightmares happen, drawing on research into how sleep shapes memory, emotion, and learning. It explains emerging approaches to “dream engineering” and lucid dreaming, and shows how understanding your dream life can help you reduce distressing dreams and improve sleep.
Who Should Read This?
- Dream-science enthusiasts exploring nightmares and REM
- Practical lucid-dreaming learners seeking stress-relief tools
- Sleep-troubled people wanting clearer, calmer nights
About the Author
Michelle Carr, Ph.D., is a sleep-and-dreams researcher who directs the Dream Engineering Laboratory at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine (University of Montreal) and has served as president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She is known for peer-reviewed research on dreaming, REM sleep, and nightmare disorders, and for science writing in outlets like Scientific American and New Scientist.
