Understanding Sleep and Dreaming

1. A Visit to a Sleep and Dreams Lab
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Part I. Sleep and Sleeping

2. What is Sleep and How it is Scientifically Measured
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3. The Need to Sleep

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4. Normal Variations of Sleep

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Part II. What Causes us to Sleep?

5. The Brain in Sleep

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6. The Body During Sleep

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Part III. Dreams and Dreaming

7. Dreams
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8. Dreaming
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9. Modern Theories of Dreams and Dreaming

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Part IV. Why We Sleep and Dream

10. Functions of Sleep and NREMS
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11. The Functions of REMS and Dreaming

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Part V. Problems with Sleeping and Dreaming

12. Some Difficulties That People May Have with Sleep
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13. Disorders of Sleep

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Keywords: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling