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TABLE OF CONTENTS

[I.]Sleep Defined[1]
[II.]Fatigue and Rest[11]
[III.]The Flight from Reality[20]
[IV.]Hypnogogic and Hypnopompic Visions[32]
[V.]Where Dreams Come From[36]
[VI.]Convenience Dreams[44]
[VII.]Dream Life[48]
[VIII.]Wish Fulfilment[58]
[IX.]Nightmares[67]
[X.]Typical Dreams and Sleep Walking[75]
[XI.]Prophetic Dreams[85]
[XII.]Attitudes Reflected in Dreams[92]
[XIII.]Recurrent Dreams[102]
[XIV.]Day Dreams[113]
[XV.]Neurosis and Dreams[118]
[XVI.]Sleeplessness[127]
[XVII.]Dream Interpretation[144]
Bibliography[158]

CHAPTER I: SLEEP DEFINED

Literary quotations and time-worn stereotypes exert a deplorable influence on our thinking. They lead us to consider certain open questions as settled, certain puzzling problems as solved.

From time immemorial, the unthinking and thinking alike, have accepted the idea of a kinship between sleep and death. Expressions like “eternal sleep” show by the frequency with which they recur, how constantly associated the two ideas are in the average mind.