When does consciousness begin? When does life start? When do we start to dream, and why? When do we know our mother? Much earlier than we think, is the answer of Douglas Arone. Pulling together evidence from recent research from a wide range of disciplines like neurobiology, neuro-immunology, neuro-anatomy, neurochemistry and others he comes to an astonishing conclusion; we are conscious in the womb, and we don't like it. The womb tricks us through pain-killers and memory blocks into accepting our state. When this doesn't work it gives rise to problems later in life, like mental disorders of all kinds. It explains why we later act and think as we do, from our preference for particular toys to our propensity to war. To understand our life in the womb is to understand the origins of human behaviour. And to understand the origins of human behaviour is to possess the keys to the answers that mankind has struggled with since the beginning of its existence.