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Index
Cover
Dedication
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
Illustration Permissions
Index
Copyright
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