Dreams, Sleep, and Consciousness

G. William Domhoff is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his B.A. in psychology from Duke University in 1958, his M.A. in psychology from Kent State University in 1959, and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Miami in 1962. He then became an assistant professor of psychology at California State University in Los Angeles in 1962. He next joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, when the campus opened in July, 1965, where he is affiliated with both the Department of Psychology and the Department of Sociology. He was promoted to distinguished professor in 1993 and retired from teaching at the end of the Spring Quarter in 2019. He was at various times a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, The University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, and Colgate University.Professor Domhoff has written five books on dreams: The Mystique of Dreams (1985), Finding Meaning in Dreams (1996), The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003), The Emergence of Dreaming (2018), and The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming (2022).He is also the author or co-author of 17 books in the field of political sociology, including Who Rules America? (1967–2023); The Higher Circles (1970); The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats (1974); The Powers That Be (1979); The Power Elite and the State (1990); State Autonomy or Class Dominance? (1996); Class and Power in the New Deal (2011, with Michael J. Webber); Diversity in the Power Elite (2018, with Richard L. Zweigenhaft); and The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century (2020).

• Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Three Theories Utilized in This Book, Chapter 2: The Unique Neurocognitive Network That Makes Dreaming Possible, Chapter 3: Findings on Dream Content in Light of the Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming, Chapter 4: Further Insights about Dream Content Based on Studies of Individual Dream Series, Chapter 5: Dreaming During the Sleep-Onset Process, Chapter 6: The Adaptive Inactivity Theory of Sleep, Chapter 7: Brain Temperatures, Activation Patterns, and Dreaming, Chapter 8: The Awakening Brain: From Dreaming to Consciousness, Chapter 9: Dreaming and Waking Consciousness, Chapter 10: Retrospect and Prospects, Appendix A: Methodological Issues in Assessing the Frequency of Emotions in Dream Reports, References.