Researcher Exploring Benefits of Extended Sleep Uncovers Alternative Life Dreams, New Sci-Fi

PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 23, 2012 - Dr. Harold Treadwell is a PHD psychologist and a professor at Philadelphia’s Jess Hawkins University (JHU).  In spite of years of successful academic achievement, he has extremely low self-esteem.  Memories plague him of a year’s earlier incident he cannot forget.  He immerses himself in defining the complex requirements for a sleep-study research project.

Harold’s proposed research focuses on sufferers of undiagnosed and untreated mysterious pain … mental and physical difficulties that appear without warning and ruin lives.  Harold spends five-years designing a sleep-stasis chamber … a necessary apparatus in the proposed study.  Finally, he submits a grant application to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Its approval is in doubt until an unexpected source of support with NIH influence surfaces.  NIH funds Harold’s request.

The approval elates Treadwell, but his challenges are only just beginning.  He suppresses thoughts of his regrettable past.  Harold moves on and assembles a research team to join him in his quest for the discoveries he perceives await them.  What they find is astonishing, perilous, and with implications that extend far beyond Philadelphia, PA.

“ALTERNATIVE LIVES – To Sleep, Perchance to Dream … Another Life” runs more than 85,000 words and nearly 400 pages.  It is available in both paperback ($14.99) and for Kindle ($9.99) at Amazon.com.  Search on “Pollens” and book title.

This is Author Allen Pollens’ second science fiction offering in less than a year and one of five books he has published.  Retired from careers in software/hardware design and high tech sales and marketing, Pollens has been telling stories his whole life.  The stories he wrote for his grandchildren have become the basis for “Starfish Chronicles – Undersea Adventures with Sammy Starfish” and for “Superhero –Chronicles of Blue Knight Adventures.”  He also turned the daily journal he kept on his European vacation into “Al’s London and Dublin Holiday,” published in full color, with ninety illustrations.

For more about “ALTERNATIVE LIVES,” or Al’s other books, contact Allen Pollens at 503-521-9681 (office), 503-407-2850 (cell), via email at s.teller@comcast.net, or go to website http:/StoryTeller-Spot.com. Free-to-read initial chapters of all Allen Pollens books are available at http://www.bookdaily.com/.

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This is Author Allen Pollens’ second science fiction offering in less than a year and one of five books he has published. Retired from careers in software/hardware design and high tech sales and marketing, Pollens has been telling stories his whole life. The stories he wrote for his grandchildren have become the basis for “Starfish Chronicles – Undersea Adventures with Sammy Starfish” and for “Superhero –Chronicles of Blue Knight Adventures.” He also turned the daily journal he kept on his European vacation into “Al’s London and Dublin Holiday,” published in full color, with ninety illustrations.

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