REPAIR DREAM .

Deepak Chopra .

Indian doctor, writer and lecturer, has written about spirituality and the power of the mind in medical healing.

REPAIR DREAM.

The dream and the quantum mechanical body .

Sleep, like good health in general, is something that most people take for granted. As long as it happens easily, there is no reason to think about it too much. But there are millions of people for whom the dream does not come easily and, as you will know from this book, the reasons are much more numerous and complex than I could imagine. It is known that millions of us, at night, when we go to bed, stay awake, worried, mentally reviewing our accounts, reviewing discussions and misunderstandings, until we have no choice but to get up to watch television. So, can we conclude that insomnia predominates more in our current society?

At present, one could say that this is a world of people with sleep disorders. If we rely on the amount of written prescriptions for sleeping pills and the volume of sleep aids that are manufactured commercially, perhaps insomnia is the most widespread health problem. Almost all of us have ever experienced insomnia and, in general, one in three adults suffer from sleep disorders periodically. Every year, at least ten million Americans consult doctors about sleep, and half of them get prescriptions for sleeping pills. There is an investigation by the National Institutes of Health that reveals that 17% of the total population suffers greatly from insomnia and that, among those of legal age, the percentage is even