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What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human history. It is an investigation on the grand scale, encompassing literature, anthropology, religion, and science, one that articulates the essential place dreams occupy in human culture, and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave paintings--where the author finds a key to humankind's first dreams and how they contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future, and to conceive the existence of "souls" and "spirits"--to cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at startling and revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution.
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SIDARTA RIBEIRO é mestre em biofísica pela UFRJ, doutor em comportamento animal pela Universidade Rockefeller, pós-doutor em neurofisiologia pela Universidade Duke, professor titular de neurociência e fundador do Instituto do Cérebro da UFRN. Formando do Grupo Capoeira Brasil, discípulo dos mestres Caxias e Paulinho Sabiá. Publicou mais de cem artigos científicos em periódicos internacionais. É autor, entre outros livros, de O oráculo da noite e Limiar, ambos publicados pela Companhia das Letras.
