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I finished two books last week, most of both finished during a round trip to Florida by car.
The first was Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin (audiobook read by the author). It was an entertaining look into the man behind the comedy.
The second was The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters by Daniel M. Wegner, Kurt Gray (audiobook read by David Marantz). This seemed well-researched and presented a variety of theories and viewpoints on mind and brain. I do wonder, however, if sleep-walking can be carried to the extremes claimed as a defense in the Parks case when, in 1987, Kenneth James Parks drove into his beloved mother-in-law's house, broke in, assaulted his father-in-law, stabbed his mother-in-law to death, then rode to the police station where he told them he may have killed someone. He said he was asleep the whole time and could recall none of the events, but my son said such intricate behaviour while asleep has been proven impossible. The author seems to take it at face value and the judge and jury agreed. I've only sleep-walked once, and that was when I was somewhere around the age of 10. The younger of my two sisters (eight years my senior) cured me of that with a bloodcurdling scream as I was attempting to get into what I thought was my own bed. I placed one hand on her neck and the other on her belly and attempted to crawl in over her and this seemed to startle her for some reason. I've also driven on autopilot, that phenomena of suddenly realizing you're at your destination but have no recall of anything that transpired between point A and point B (also covered in the book), but never while sleeping. But I can vouch for the fact that driving on autopilot in a thing. All-in-all a most fascinating book.
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