From the Book - First Scribner hardcover edition.
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.
