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