Why we sleep : unlocking the power of sleep and dreams / Matthew Walker

CONTENT INCLUDES:

Part 1 This thing called sleep
Chapter1 To sleep ...
Chapter2 Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin: losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm
Chapter3 Defining and generating sleep: time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952
Chapter4 Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain: who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much?
Chapter5 Changes in Sleep across the Life Span

Part 2 Why should you sleep?
Chapter6 Your mother and Shakespeare knew: the benefits of sleep for the brain
Chapter7 Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: sleep deprivation and the brain
Chapter8 Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life: sleep deprivation and the body

Part 3 How and why we dream
Chapter9 Routinely psychotic: REM-sleep dreaming
Chapter10 Dreaming as overnight therapy
Chapter11 Dream creativity and dream control

Part 4 From sleeping pills to society transformed
Chapter12 Things that go bump in the night: sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep
Chapter13 iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps: what's stopping you from sleeping?
Chapter14 Hurting and helping your sleep: pills vs. therapy
Chapter15 Sleep and society: what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right
Chapter16 A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century

Includes index.