From the Book - First Scribner paperback edition.
Part 1. This thing called sleep. To sleep ...
Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin : losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm
Defining and generating sleep : time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952
Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain : who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much?
Changes in sleep across the life span
Part 2. Why should you sleep? Your mother and Shakespeare knew : the benefits of sleep for the brain
Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records : sleep deprivation and the brain
Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life : sleep deprivation and the body
Part 3. How and why we dream. Routinely psychotic : REM-sleep dreaming
Dreaming as overnight therapy
Dream creativity and dream control
Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transformed. Things that go bump in the night : sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep
iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps : what's stopping you from sleeping?
Hurting and helping your sleep : pills vs. therapy
Sleep and society : what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right
A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century
Conclusion : to sleep or not to sleep
Appendix : twelve tips for healthy sleep.
From the Audiobook CD - Unabridged.
Part 1. This thing called sleep --
Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin: losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm --
Defining and generating sleep: time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952 --
Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain: who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much? --
Part 2. Why should you sleep? --
Your mother and Shakespeare knew: the benefits of sleep for the brain --
Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: sleep deprivation and the brain --
Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life: sleep deprivation and the body --
Part 3. How and why we dream --
Routinely psychotic: REM-sleep dreaming --
Dreaming as overnight therapy --
Dream creativity and dream control --
Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transformed --
Things that go bump in the night:" sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep --
iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps: what's stopping you from sleeping? --
Hurting and helping your sleep: pills vs. therapy --
Sleep and society: what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right --
A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century --
Conclusion: To sleep or not to sleep --
Appendix: Twelve tips for healthy sleep.