Dreaming

• Looks at the new scientific facts about dreaming and possible answers to long-held questions about the activation, function, and interpretation of dreams
• Relates the science of dreaming and sleep to their interpretation in history and in psychoanalysis
• Investigates the relationships between dreaming, learning, memory, and consciousness
• Explores how discoveries in the science of dreams have advanced our understanding of mental illness

Readership: This is for the general reader and student interested in the research of dreaming and sleep, neurophysiology, the brain, and mental illness.

J. Allan Hobson, Director of the Neurophysiology and Sleep Laboratory and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

"Fascinating." - Caroline Green, BBC Focus

1: What is dreaming?
2: Why dream content analysis failed to become a science
3: How is the brain activated in sleep?
4: Cells and molecules of the dreaming brain
5: Why dream? The functions of brain activation in sleep
6: Disorders of dreaming
7: Dreaming as delirium: sleep and mental illness
8: The new neuropsychology of dreaming
9: Dreaming, learning and memory
10: Dream consciousness
11: The interpretation of dreams
Conclusion