To Catch A Dream

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Sleeping and Dreaming Rosette's Dream Rosette's First Analysis The Story of Rosette's Mother Rosette's Answer Early Thoughts on Sleep and Dreams Common Notions About Sleep and Dreams Research on Dreams 2. Freud and Dreaming Exploring Dreams Freud's Notions of Dream Function 3. Sleep and Dream Research The Discovery of REM Sleep REM Sleep and Dreaming The Sleep Cycle Dream Time and Real Time 4. Explorations of Dreaming REM and Non-REM Dreaming Dreaming and REM-Sleep Activity 5. Daytime Events, Sleep and Dreaming Studies of Presleep Experience Vagaries of Our Lives 6. Our Bodies, Our Dreams Thirst Exercise Sleeping Pills and Alcohol The Mentrual Cycle Illness 7. Things That Go Bump In The Night Environmental Effects on Dream Content Learning While Asleep 8. Dream Recall and Dream Recall Failure Investigations of Repression Salience Interference Arousal Retrieving Dreams 9. Dream Deprivation REM Deprivation Dream Substitution 10. The Adaptive Function of Dreams Dreams and the Mastery of Stress Dreams and Compensation Dreams and Avoidance Disruption and Avoidance A Summing Up Notes Index