Jessie J flaunts her toned post-baby body in grey underwear as she shares a glimpse at family trip with boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman and son Sky I love diving into archives and finding things I wasn’t expecting. Sometimes I get so involved in exploring collections and gathering bits of cool stuff that I forget I actually need to write something with it! I usually start quite broadly with research, and that points me down various avenues and helps me to make connections in terms of a chapter’s structure. Working along a timeline helps, too, but I’m always happy to change my plans once I’ve found something particularly fascinating! The dreams of the British public collected in World War II was something I stumbled across while down a research rabbit hole, and it’s one of my favourite sources in the book. I was intrigued by the potential of lucid dreaming to treat PTSD. Do you think it could also help other mental illnesses, such as depression or OCD? Alice Vernon has been plagued by "parasomnias" ever since she was a child. These can vary from nightmares, sleepwalking, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and even lucid dreaming - just to name a few. They're more common than you think and will affect around 70% of us at some point during our lives. Only Fools And Horses star Nicholas Lyndhurst achieves newfound success in America as he's deemed 'best actor ever' by Fraser co-star Kelsey Grammer Ella Morgan narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction as she stumbles while leaving Beauty Awards after reuniting with her MAFS UK co-stars

Helen Flanagan reveals she's been ghosted and had a one night stand in a string of dating disasters after her split from her ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair Omid Scobie insists Harry and Meghan didn't brief him for book - but admits there are 'plenty of people around them' who DID' Sarah Lancashire makes rare public appearance to collect Performance of the Year gong at the Rose D'Or Awards for the final series of Happy Valley Parasomnias are surprisingly common and will be experienced by as many as 70% of people at some point in our lives.Susannah Hill, from Aura Libraries, said "We are looking forward to starting the New Year in spine tingling style with our partners at The Mold Bookshop and welcoming Alice Vernon to Mold Library to talk about her book, closely followed by a Double Murder, with bestselling crime authors Amanda Brooke and Caroline Corcoran. Brendan Fraser is in high spirits as stops to chat with a colleague after enjoying lunch at a popular Italian spot in New York City

Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It is the work of Dr Alice Vernon, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. Grace Dent's MasterChef co-star Gregg Wallace shuts down popular theory on why she quit I'm A Celeb Alice Vernon’s “Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It” is published by Icon. Along the way she explores the Salem Witch Trials and sleep paralysis, Victorian ghost stories, and soldiers' experiences of PTSD.Ever since Alice Vernon was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence, sinister hallucinations, and episodes of sleepwalking. These are known as ‘parasomnias’– and they’re surprisingly common. When she was a 15-year-old at school, a new teacher arrived, whom Alice calls ‘Meredith’ in this book. On her first day, Meredith stared at Alice across the playground. In the classroom, she made Alice sit as far as possible from the door, so that after school she could waylay her, and chat, making her miss her bus home. Meredith insinuated herself into Alice’s life, using friendliness and texting. Raye breaks down in tears as she discusses substance abuse and 'reaching her limit' with her old record label in emotional documentary

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Suffering sleepless nights? Tossing and turning? Find your slumber solutions with MyPillow, the most comfortable pillow you'll ever own... GUARANTEED! Dr Vernon said: “Over the centuries, parasomnias have had a profound effect on the human imagination, shaping both art and literature. Famous novels such as A thread running through the book is the story of Vernon’s claustrophobic and manipulative relationship with a former teacher, whom she calls Meredith after mara, “an Old Norse word for a witch who would lie on people’s chests and try to suffocate them”. The mara is what we now know to be sleep paralysis, a parasomnia where the body’s inability to move – preventing us from acting out our dreams and hurting ourselves or the people we sleep with – continues after waking up. The person is lying down, fully awake and conscious, and yet entirely unable to move. Even screaming is impossible. Dr Vernon said: “In finding examples and case studies from history, as well as being rather brutally honest about my own troubled sleep, I’m hoping to encourage conversations about parasomnias—and for us all to realise that our strange sleep experiences aren’t quite so strange after all.” Maya Jama puts on a VERY leggy display in dazzling silver gown as she attends the Sabina Bilenko Couture Christmas party