Alan Moffitt and Robert Hoffmann are Professors of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and are co-directors of the Laboratory of Sleep and Chronopsychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Milton Kramer is Director of Sleep Disorders at Bethesda Oak Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction 1. Data Constraints on Theorizing About Dream FunctionDavid Foulkes 2. The Function of Dreaming in the Cycles of Cognition: A Biogenetic Structural AccountJohn McManus, Charles D. Laughlin, and Jon Shearer 3. A Model of Dreaming and Its Functional Significance: The State-Shift HypothesisMartha Koukkou and Dietrich Lehmann 4. Connectionism and SleepGordon G. Globus 5. The Selective Mood Regulatory Function of Dreaming: An Update and RevisionMilton Kramer 6. Waking, Dreaming, and Self-RegulationSheila Purcell, Alan Moffitt, and Robert Hoffmann 7. REM Sleep and Dreams as Mechanisms of the Recovery of Search ActivityV. S. Rotenberg 8. The Repetition of Dreams and Dream Elements: A Possible Clue to a Function of DreamsG. William Domhoff 9. Dreams and Adaptation to Contemporary StressDavid Koulack 10. REM Sleep and Learning: Some Recent FindingsCarlyle Smith 11. An Integrated Approach to Dream Theory: Contributions from Sleep Research and Clinical PracticeRamon Greenberg and Chester Pearlman 12. The "Royal Road" to the Unconscious Revisited: A Signal Detection Model of Dream FunctionHarry Fiss 13. The Impact of Dreams on Waking Thoughts and FeelingsDon Kuiken and Shelley Sikora 14. Reasons for Oneiromancy: Some Psychological Functions of Conventional Dream InterpretationWaud H. Kracke 15. "Pity the Bones by Wandering River which Still Lovers' Dream Appear as Men"Robert Knox Dentan and Laura J. McClusky 16. Dreaming: Could We Do Without It?John Antrobus Index

"Understanding dreaming is essential to a comprehensive account of the nature of the mind. After all, we spend a third of our lives sleeping; as the chapters of this book amply demonstrate, important mental activity goes on during sleep, and psychology cannot be complete as long as it ignores the mind asleep and dreaming. The editors have done a commendable job of bringing together a wide variety of views of the 'elephant of the dark.' I found reading the book a stimulating and rewarding experience, and I believe others will too." — Stephen LaBerge, Stanford University"Moffitt, Kramer, and Hoffmann, each highly respected in his field, have gathered together a group of respected and scholarly authors to create a book that reflects the 'state of the art' in scientific research on the dreaming process. Functions of Dreaming provides a lucid, empirically based, methodologically informed, and theoretically alive presentation of fundamentally significant issues in the field which should challenge any rational skeptic's doubt regarding the bio/affective/cognitive significance of the dreaming process. " — Robert E. Haskell, University of New England

Alan Moffitt and Robert Hoffmann are Professors of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and are co-directors of the Laboratory of Sleep and Chronopsychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Milton Kramer is Director of Sleep Disorders at Bethesda Oak Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction 1. Data Constraints on Theorizing About Dream FunctionDavid Foulkes 2. The Function of Dreaming in the Cycles of Cognition: A Biogenetic Structural AccountJohn McManus, Charles D. Laughlin, and Jon Shearer 3. A Model of Dreaming and Its Functional Significance: The State-Shift HypothesisMartha Koukkou and Dietrich Lehmann 4. Connectionism and SleepGordon G. Globus 5. The Selective Mood Regulatory Function of Dreaming: An Update and RevisionMilton Kramer 6. Waking, Dreaming, and Self-RegulationSheila Purcell, Alan Moffitt, and Robert Hoffmann 7. REM Sleep and Dreams as Mechanisms of the Recovery of Search ActivityV. S. Rotenberg 8. The Repetition of Dreams and Dream Elements: A Possible Clue to a Function of DreamsG. William Domhoff 9. Dreams and Adaptation to Contemporary StressDavid Koulack 10. REM Sleep and Learning: Some Recent FindingsCarlyle Smith 11. An Integrated Approach to Dream Theory: Contributions from Sleep Research and Clinical PracticeRamon Greenberg and Chester Pearlman 12. The "Royal Road" to the Unconscious Revisited: A Signal Detection Model of Dream FunctionHarry Fiss 13. The Impact of Dreams on Waking Thoughts and FeelingsDon Kuiken and Shelley Sikora 14. Reasons for Oneiromancy: Some Psychological Functions of Conventional Dream InterpretationWaud H. Kracke 15. "Pity the Bones by Wandering River which Still Lovers' Dream Appear as Men"Robert Knox Dentan and Laura J. McClusky 16. Dreaming: Could We Do Without It?John Antrobus Index

"Understanding dreaming is essential to a comprehensive account of the nature of the mind. After all, we spend a third of our lives sleeping; as the chapters of this book amply demonstrate, important mental activity goes on during sleep, and psychology cannot be complete as long as it ignores the mind asleep and dreaming. The editors have done a commendable job of bringing together a wide variety of views of the 'elephant of the dark.' I found reading the book a stimulating and rewarding experience, and I believe others will too." — Stephen LaBerge, Stanford University"Moffitt, Kramer, and Hoffmann, each highly respected in his field, have gathered together a group of respected and scholarly authors to create a book that reflects the 'state of the art' in scientific research on the dreaming process. Functions of Dreaming provides a lucid, empirically based, methodologically informed, and theoretically alive presentation of fundamentally significant issues in the field which should challenge any rational skeptic's doubt regarding the bio/affective/cognitive significance of the dreaming process. " — Robert E. Haskell, University of New England

Alan Moffitt and Robert Hoffmann are Professors of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and are co-directors of the Laboratory of Sleep and Chronopsychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Milton Kramer is Director of Sleep Disorders at Bethesda Oak Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction 1. Data Constraints on Theorizing About Dream FunctionDavid Foulkes 2. The Function of Dreaming in the Cycles of Cognition: A Biogenetic Structural AccountJohn McManus, Charles D. Laughlin, and Jon Shearer 3. A Model of Dreaming and Its Functional Significance: The State-Shift HypothesisMartha Koukkou and Dietrich Lehmann 4. Connectionism and SleepGordon G. Globus 5. The Selective Mood Regulatory Function of Dreaming: An Update and RevisionMilton Kramer 6. Waking, Dreaming, and Self-RegulationSheila Purcell, Alan Moffitt, and Robert Hoffmann 7. REM Sleep and Dreams as Mechanisms of the Recovery of Search ActivityV. S. Rotenberg 8. The Repetition of Dreams and Dream Elements: A Possible Clue to a Function of DreamsG. William Domhoff 9. Dreams and Adaptation to Contemporary StressDavid Koulack 10. REM Sleep and Learning: Some Recent FindingsCarlyle Smith 11. An Integrated Approach to Dream Theory: Contributions from Sleep Research and Clinical PracticeRamon Greenberg and Chester Pearlman 12. The "Royal Road" to the Unconscious Revisited: A Signal Detection Model of Dream FunctionHarry Fiss 13. The Impact of Dreams on Waking Thoughts and FeelingsDon Kuiken and Shelley Sikora 14. Reasons for Oneiromancy: Some Psychological Functions of Conventional Dream InterpretationWaud H. Kracke 15. "Pity the Bones by Wandering River which Still Lovers' Dream Appear as Men"Robert Knox Dentan and Laura J. McClusky 16. Dreaming: Could We Do Without It?John Antrobus Index

"Understanding dreaming is essential to a comprehensive account of the nature of the mind. After all, we spend a third of our lives sleeping; as the chapters of this book amply demonstrate, important mental activity goes on during sleep, and psychology cannot be complete as long as it ignores the mind asleep and dreaming. The editors have done a commendable job of bringing together a wide variety of views of the 'elephant of the dark.' I found reading the book a stimulating and rewarding experience, and I believe others will too." — Stephen LaBerge, Stanford University"Moffitt, Kramer, and Hoffmann, each highly respected in his field, have gathered together a group of respected and scholarly authors to create a book that reflects the 'state of the art' in scientific research on the dreaming process. Functions of Dreaming provides a lucid, empirically based, methodologically informed, and theoretically alive presentation of fundamentally significant issues in the field which should challenge any rational skeptic's doubt regarding the bio/affective/cognitive significance of the dreaming process. " — Robert E. Haskell, University of New England