Table of Contents

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

About the Author

David Koulack is Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. He has been actively engaged in dream research for over twenty-five years.

Reviews

"This is a very readable book on dreams which is solidly based from beginning to end on the best theoretical and laboratory evidence on dreams available today. As Koulack says, dreams are recollections of past events which are encapsulated in the sleeping state. As such, they are very difficult to study scientifically; Koulack has developed a solid reputation as a dream researcher and theoretician during the course of his work which now spans more than two decades. He has a perspective and depth of knowledge in this field which allowed him to synthesize Freud, Jung, and laboratory dream research very effectively. He offers explanations, understanding, and plausible hypotheses rather than the groundless 'interpretations' which have plagued the works of most writers since Freud. He is not afraid to distinguish between what we know and what remains a mystery to be solved by further study. "The topic is fascinating. It is significant in that the book integrates the effects of presleep and external stimuli upon the dream process more thoroughly than any book has before. The chapter on dream salience and recall/recall failure is excellent. The REM deprivation studies are again well summarized, and the final chapter on the compensation and avoidance of dreams is an insightful and fair description of the state of the art." - Robert D. Ogilvie, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Brock University "This book covers a large portion of the research on dreams and its implications on everyday life. It is very well and simply written. It combines scholarly standards with exceptional readability. The scientific approach is pervasive but with constant attention to everyday applications. " - Joseph De Koninck, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa "This book provides scientifically based conclusions from the best experimental data this field has to offer. It is not based on the author's personal dream experiences as many 'dream' books are. The level of speculation is very careful and reasonable." - Carlyle T. Smith, Department of Psychology, Trent University