Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

– Part 1 –
This Thing Called Sleep
Chapter 1 To Sleep . . .
Chapter 2 Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm
Chapter 3 Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in
1952
Chapter 4 Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep,
and How Much?
Chapter 5 Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span

– Part 2 –
Why Should You Sleep?
Chapter 6 Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain
Chapter 7 Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain
Chapter 8 Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body

– Part 3 –
How and Why We Dream
Chapter 9 Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming
Chapter 10 Dreaming as Overnight Therapy
Chapter 11 Dream Creativity and Dream Control

– Part 4 –
From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed
Chapter 12 Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep
Chapter 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?
Chapter 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy
Chapter 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google
and NASA Are Doing Right
Chapter 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep
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