To Catch A Dream: Explorations of Dreaming

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