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Contents
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Part 1
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This Thing Called Sleep
Chapter 1  To Sleep . . .
Chapter 2  Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm
Chapter 3  Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952
Chapter 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 Span
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Part 2
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Why Should You Sleep?
Chapter 6  Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain
Chapter 7  Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records
: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain
Chapter 8  Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body
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Part 3
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How and Why We Dream
Chapter 9  Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming
Chapter 10 Dreaming as Overnight Therapy
Chapter 11 Dream Creativity and Dream Control
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Part 4
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From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed
Chapter 12 Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep
Chapter 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?
Chapter 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy
Chapter 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right
Chapter 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep
Illustration Permissions
To Dacher Keltner, for inspiring me to write.
PART 1
This Thing Called Sleep
CHAPTER 1
To Sleep . . .
Do you think you got enough sleep this past week? Can you recall the last time you woke up without an alarm clock feeling refreshed, not needing caffeine? If the answer to either of these questions is “no,” you are not alone. Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the recommended eight hours of nightly sleep.
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I doubt you are surprised by this fact, but you may be surprised by the consequences. Routinely sleeping less th ............

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