Table of Contents:
- The world of dreams and dreamers. What people dream about ; The people who dream ; Dream themes ; Paranormal dreams ; The dream that keeps returning ; "I know I am dreaming"
- the lucid dream
- Dream theories throughout the world. A primitive view of dreams ; Dreams in the ancient world ; Judeo-Christian speculations on dreams ; Philosophers looks at their dreams ; The physiological theory of dreams ; The psychiatric breakthrough ; An experimental approach to dreams through hypnosis and drugs ; The fringe area of dreams : nightmares, sleepwalking, and dozing-off dreams
- The new world of dream research. Dreams move into the laboratory ; New facts about dreams ; The sleeping mind at work ; Nappers, narcoleptics, nightmares, and sleepwalkers ; The evolution of dreaming ; The drama of dreaming ; Sense impressions in dreams ; Artificial stimulation of dreams ; The biological need to sleep and dream.