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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER

 

NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION

 

"A propulsive, utterly engrossing history... None of it is simple and all of it is captivating."—The New York Times

 

"Mapping the Darkness offers two narratives at once: a sweeping journey of discovery about dreams, sleep and the terra incognita of unconsciousness; and a wake-up call about the dangers of chronic exhaustion. It’s time, Mr. Miller tells us, to take our sleep back."—The Wall Street Journal

 

From award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller comes the definitive story of the scientists who set out to answer two questions: “Why do we sleep?” and "How can we sleep better?”

 

A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist and his assistant spent a month in the depths of a Kentucky cave, making nationwide headlines and thrusting sleep science to the forefront of our consciousness.

 

In the 1920s, Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world’s first dedicated sleep lab at the University of Chicago, where he subjected research participants (including himself) to a dizzying array of tests and tortures. But the tipping point came in 1938, when his cave experiment awakened the general public to the unknown—and vital—world of sleep. Kleitman went on to mentor the talented but troubled Eugene Aserinsky, whose discovery of REM sleep revealed the astonishing activity of the dreaming brain, and William Dement, a jazz-bass playing revolutionary who became known as the father of sleep medicine. Dement, in turn, mentored the brilliant maverick Mary Carskadon, who uncovered an epidemic of sleep deprivation among teenagers, and launched a global movement to fight it.

 

Award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller weaves together science and history to tell the story of four outsider scientists who took sleep science from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession through spectacular experiments, technological innovation, and single-minded commitment. Readers will walk away with a comprehensive understanding of sleep and why it affects so much of our lives.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part I Coming into me Territory

1 Exodus3

2 Arrival10

3 Coming into the Territory 31

4 Descent and Transformation 54

Part II Chasing Dreams

5 The Body Electric 71

6 A New Continent 90

7 Chasing Dreams 108

8 Pathway to Paradox 123

9 A Society of Scientists 144

10 The Frontier Shifts 149

11 A New Vision 167

Part III Awakening

12 The Birth(s) of Sleep Medicine 181

13 Decoding the Clockwork 193

14 Seeing Patterns 202

15 Beyond Pills and Scalpels 221

16 Crossroads 237

17 Catastrophe 249

18 Awakening 263

Epilogue 281

Diagram: The Anatomy of Sleep 289

Appendix A A Time Line of Sleep Science 291

Appendix B Meanwhile, in a Parallel Universe: A Brief Prehistory of Chronobiology 297

Acknowledgments 303

Bibliography 307

Notes 315

Index 399