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