Arthur Woodbury is tired of being called fat. When he orders a weight-loss device from a comic book, he suddenly finds himself trapped in REM World, the endangered realm of dreams. He has to save REM World, or the future will cease to exist!

Thirty-one, funeral director, London. That's pretty much all Julian Desmond remembers from his waking life. He wakes in a dimension that can only be accessed via dreams (REM World). A rock monster tells him dreams are real and they can kill him. The Resistance promises to protect him, but when he receives his Gift of premonition, he learns it's at a price. Laughing Man seems clueless, harmless, even doltish. But he's evidently destined to join forces with an immortal tyrant. Julian chooses to save his life. He intends to use him as leverage, but as the nights wear on and he grows more powerful, will he come to regret it? A harrowing journey of self-destruction, addiction, grief, trauma, and healing.

The toys surrounding a boy who has fallen asleep while playing in his room reappear as fantastical images as he dreams.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy destroyed the neurological boundaries between dreaming and reality in her brain. She faced terrifying hallucinations, paralysis and excruciating sleepiness - aspects of dream sleep taking place while wide awake. Yet, narcolepsy was a wake-up call for Julie. Her illness propelled her onto a journey she never imagined - from lying paralyzed on her apartment floor to dancing euphorically at a nightclub; from the classrooms of Harvard Medical School to the start line of the Boston Marathon. Wide Awake and Dreaming is a revealing first-hand account of dreams gone wrong with narcolepsy. It's the brave story of one woman trampling over barriers and finding light in the darkest of circumstances.