Counting Sheep
Subtitle: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: July 1, 2004
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780312327439
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Human Nervous System; Science; Consumer Health; Science/Mathematics; Dreams - General; Sleep & Sleep Disorders; Science / General; General; Sleep
First sentence: Sleep: a state so familiar yet so strange.
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Preliminaries
pagenum: 1; label: 1:
title: A Third of Life
pagenum: 3; title: A sleep-sick society?
pagenum: 5; title: The universal imperative
pagenum: 7; title: Half asleep
pagenum: 13; title: Nice, not naughty
pagenum: 15; label: Part II
title: Insufficiencies
pagenum: 17; label: 2:
title: Sleep People
pagenum: 19; title: Are we sleep-deprived?
pagenum: 19; title: Are you sleep-deprived?
pagenum: 24; title: Reasons for not sleeping
pagenum: 26; title: Ancient and modern
pagenum: 29; title: Sleepy drivers
pagenum: 33; title: Sleepy pilots
pagenum: 38; title: Sleepy doctors
pagenum: 41; title: The madness of politicians
pagenum: 43; title: Truly, madly, sleepily
pagenum: 48; title: The price of eternal vigilance is liberty
pagenum: 50; label: 3:
title: Dead Tired
pagenum: 52; title: Sleepiness
pagenum: 52; title: Fighting the beast
pagenum: 55; title: A soil for peevishness
pagenum: 59; title: Tired people are stupid and reckless
pagenum: 61; title: Alcohol, beauty and old age
pagenum: 65; title: Champion wakers
pagenum: 68; title: Uses and abuses
pagenum: 71; label: 4:
title: The Golden Chain
pagenum: 71; title: A waking death
pagenum: 76; title: Body and soul
pagenum: 78; title: Sleep, immunity and healthy
pagenum: 79; title: The Battle of Stalingrad
pagenum: 82; title: Sleepless in hospital " 84; label: Part III
title: Mechanisms
pagenum: 87; label: 5:
title: The Shapes of Sleep
pagenum: 89; title: Measuring sleep
pagenum: 90; title: Falling asleep again, what am I to do?
pagenum: 92; title: The sleep cycle
pagenum: 97; title: The paradoxical world of REM
pagenum: 99; title: The sleep cycle continued
pagenum: 103; title: Waking up
pagenum: 106; title: The quality of sleep
pagenum: 109; title: Meditating - or only sleeping?
pagenum: 110; label: 6:
title: Morpheus Undressed
pagenum: 113; title: The rhythms of life
pagenum: 114; title: So SAD
pagenum: 121; title: Lark and owls
pagenum: 122; title: Genes and sleep
pagenum: 127; title: A sleeplessness that kills
pagenum: 130; label: 7:
title: Strange Tales of Erections and Yawning
pagenum: 132; title: Nocturnal erections
pagenum: 132; title: The mystery of yawning
pagenum: 138; label: 8:
title: Friends and Enemies of Sleep
pagenum: 142; title: Brother caffeine
pagenum: 142; title: Sister alcohol
pagenum: 152; title: Tobacco
pagenum: 155; title: Food for sleep
pagenum: 156; title: Exercise is bunk, isn't it?
pagenum: 159; title: Things that go bump in the night
pagenum: 161; title: Shift work
pagenum: 163; title: Poppy, mandragora and drowsy syrups
pagenum: 165; title: Hypnotic exotica
pagenum: 168; label: Part IV
title: Dreams
pagenum: 171; label: 9:
title: The Children of an Idle Brain?
pagenum: 173; title: To sleep, perchance . . .
pagenum: 173; title: Do flies dream?
pagenum: 178; title: A dream within a dream?
pagenum: 179; title: Dreaming as madness
pagenum: 183; title: Are dreams meaningful?
pagenum: 186; title: Like wine through water
pagenum: 193; title: Can dreams be sinful?
pagenum: 195; label: 10:
title: A Second Life
pagenum: 197; title: A creative state
pagenum: 197; title: Stevenson's Brownies
pagenum: 204; title: Lucid dreams
pagenum: 206; title: The great dreamer
pagenum: 212; label: Part V
title: Origins
pagenum: 219; label: 11:
title: From Egg to Grave
pagenum: 221; title: Screaming babies
pagenum: 222; title: Bad children
pagenum: 229; title: Yawning youth
pagenum: 233; title: Old and grey and full of sleep
pagenum: 236; label: 12:
title: The Reason of Sleep
pagenum: 240; title: The evolution of sleep
pagenum: 241; title: What is sleep for?
pagenum: 243; title: What is REM sleep for?
pagenum: 245; title: Reverse learning
pagenum: 247; title: To sleep, perchance to learn
pagenum: 249; title: Should machines sleep?
pagenum: 254; label: Part VI
title: Problems
pagenum: 255; label: 13:
title: Bad Sleepers
pagenum: 257; title: An intolerable lucidity
pagenum: 258; title: Why can't you sleep?
pagenum: 230; title: Storm and stress and sleep
pagenum: 263; title: What to do?
pagenum: 265; title: Staying awake
pagenum: 267; label: 14:
title: Dark Night
pagenum: 271; title: Walking and talking
pagenum: 271; title: Nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis and the Old Hag
pagenum: 274; title: Moving sleep
pagenum: 278; title: Midnight feasting
pagenum: 279; title: Soggy sheets
pagenum: 280; title: Aching heads
pagenum: 282; title: Troubled guts
pagenum: 283; title: Troubled minds
pagenum: 285; title: Sudden nocturnal death
pagenum: 287; title: Narcolepsy
pagenum: 288; label: 15:
title: Pickwickian Problems
pagenum: 291; title: The wonderful world of snoring
pagenum: 291; title: Silence is golden
pagenum: 296; title: Breathless in bed
pagenum: 297; title: Consequences - mostly dire
pagenum: 303; title: Unblocking those tubes
pagenum: 308; label: Part VII
title: Pleasures
pagenum: 313; label: 16:
title: And So to Bed
pagenum: 315; title: A brief history of beds
pagenum: 317; title: Sleeping partners
pagenum: 324; label: 17:
title: An Excellent Thing
pagenum: 330; title: Puritans and hypocrites
pagenum: 330; title: Naps, nappers and napping
pagenum: 334; title: Sweet dreams
pagenum: 340; title: Blessed oblivion
pagenum: 343; title: Give sleep a chance
pagenum: 344; title: In praise of horizontalism
pagenum: 346; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 348; title: References
pagenum: 349; title: Index
pagenum: 399