Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers. Pippa Goodhart's interest in children's books was originally sparked by a Saturday job at Heffers in Cambridge when she was at school. Since then, Pippa qualified as a teacher and returned to Heffers, where she eventually became Manager of the Children's Bookshop. She has been writing since 1993 and has written over 100 books! Her books have won or been shortlisted for numerous awards.

You Choose Your Dreams: A new story every time - WHSmith

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Techniques to control, or at least influence, our dreams have been shown to work in sleep experiments. We can strategize to dream about a particular subject, solve a problem or end a recurring nightmare. With practice we can also increase our chances of having a lucid dream, the sort of "dream within a dream" that Inception's characters regularly slip into. I chose this book for my daughter as she absolutely loves this series. We always have great discussions whilst reading them. These books really help children (and adults!) to be imaginative. Would you like to be big or small? Where would you travel in time? What machine would you invent? Imagine being magical! I can't wait to read this with her tonight! Now, I’m not going to go in-depth about this topic as there’s already a lot of other great resources out there. Here’s a list of just some resources that may be helpful:

You Choose: A new story every time – what will YOU choose You Choose: A new story every time – what will YOU choose

This highly inventive and interactive book allows children to tell their own stories, combining new elements each time. For instance, if you want to juggle a family and a career, you can do both… however, you can’t work 40 hours/week and then be home with your kids for 40 hours/week too. (I don’t recommend giving up sleep!)This slipcase includes 3 marvellous books from the You Choose Series: You Choose, You Choose Fairy Tales, You Choose in Space, You Choose your Dreams. You see, his three sons were walking three hours one way to school and it was a difficult path. So he decided to take matters into his own hands and create a shorter route. The ability to influence other people's sleep worlds is still crude. But emerging technologies raise the prospect that, at the very least, we'll get an idea of what others are dreaming about in real time.