Part 1 This Thing Called Sleep
Chapter 1 To Sleep … 3
Chapter 2 Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm 13
Chapter 3 Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952 38
Chapter 4 Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much? 56
Chapter 5 Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span 78
Part 2 Why Should You Sleep?
Chapter 6 Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain 107
Chapter 7 Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain 133
Chapter 8 Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body 164
Part 3 How and Why We Dream
Chapter 9 Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming 193
Chapter 10 Dreaming as Overnight Therapy 206
Chapter 11 Dream Creativity and Dream Control 219
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 237
Chapter 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What's Stopping You from Sleeping? 265
Chapter 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy 282
Chapter 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right 296
Chapter 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century 324
Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep 340
Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep 341
Illustration Permissions 343
Acknowledgments 344