Part 1 This Thing Called SleepChapter 1 To SleepChapter 2 Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep RhythmChapter 3 Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952Chapter 4 Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much?Chapter 5 Changes in Sleep Across the Life SpanPart 2 Why Should You Sleep?Chapter 6 Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the BrainChapter 7 Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the BrainChapter 8 Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the BodyPart 3 How and Why We DreamChapter 9 Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep DreamingChapter 10 Dreaming as Overnight TherapyChapter 11 Dream Creativity and Dream ControlPart 4 From Sleeping Pills to Society TransformedChapter 12 Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No SleepChapter 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What's Stopping You from Sleeping?Chapter 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. TherapyChapter 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing RightChapter 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: To Sleep or Not to SleepAppendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy SleepIllustration PermissionsAcknowledgments