Preface ix
Chapter 1 Thinking About Dreams 1
Chapter 2 Grasping at Dreams Early Explorers of the Dream World 13
Chapter 3 Freud Discovered the Secret of Dreams or So He Thought 30
Chapter 4 The Birth of a New Science of Dreaming Opening Windows onto the Sleeping Mind 41
Chapter 5 Sleep-Just a Cure for Sleepiness? 57
Chapter 6 Do Dogs Dream? 76
Chapter 7 Why We Dream 87
Chapter 8 Nextup 108
Chapter 9 The Mischievous Content of Dreams 130
Chapter 10 What Do We Dream About? and Why? 155
Chapter 11 Dreams and Inner Creativity 176
Chapter 12 Working with Dreams Ideas, Methods, and Caveats 190
Chapter 13 Things That Go Bump in the Night PTSD, Nightmares, and Other Dream-Related Disorders 204
Chapter 14 Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain The Art and Science of Lucid Dreaming 227
Chapter 15 Telepathic and Precognitive Dreams or Why You May Have Already Dreamt of This Chapter 246
Epilogue: What We Know, What We Don't Know What We Might Never Know, and Why It All Matters 261
Appendix-NEXTUP: A Model of How and Why We Dream 271
Suggested Reading 275
Acknowledgments 279
Notes 283
Index 303