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Leslie Watkins' unabridged collection of three volumes exploring sleep, a mystery packed with surprises. Most people are unaware that every night vast numbers of sleepwalkers display totally unexpected behavior. Some call it the mystery of slow-wave sleep when behavior by sleepwalkers, which seem too bizarre to be possible, takes place.

From humble junior reporter on the Luton News to globe-trotting feature writer for the Daily Mail and a sometime television executive - this is Leslie Watkins - Les to his friends - reporting the news over 70 years. He tells of Fleet Street in its heyday revealing what went on inside the newspaper world, of scoop after scoop, fake news, murder, and political corruption. Honest, humorous, surprising, and sometimes tragic his journalist's eye view of the world, of breaking news, drink fuelled editorial feuds, and dirty tricks lifts the lid on journalism's golden age.

The nightmarish Sandy Hook massacre, the 9/11 atrocity, the Titanic disaster, and others have all been foretold in dreams and premonitions. This Mysterious Realm Called Sleep: Book 3 delves into the dark shadows of nightmares and hypnosis, of sleepwalking and automatic writing, to reveal more fascinating insights into the little-understood secrets of the mind.

By the age of 60, most of us will have been sleeping for a total of roughly 20 years. That’s how we spend about a third of our lives. Yet, few of us are aware of the oddities which tend to trespass through our slumbers - or of the strange somnambulism that can erupt when we’ve drifted into restful oblivion. This audiobook, the second in the series, delves deep into the darker corners of the realm we call sleep, when our brains are active but we have no control and strange things happen.

Sleep is a mystery packed with surprises. Most people are unaware that every night vast numbers of sleepwalkers display totally unexpected behavior. They move around in their hundreds, in their thousands, and they're spread through every town and city in the world. There's the famous musician whose dream gave him one of the most successful songs of this century - one enthusiastically covered by a host of stars including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Liberace.