| Prologue |
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1 When the Sandman Comes: Falling Asleep |
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1 | (10) |
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2 Opening the Inn for Phantoms: Surrendering to Sleep |
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11 | (12) |
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3 Cribs, Cradles, and Slings: Sleeping Babies Across Cultures |
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23 | (18) |
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4 Sleep Stages: Western Science and Eastern Philosophy |
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41 | (16) |
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5 Between Sleeps: The Midnight Watch |
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57 | (6) |
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6 When Sleep Never Comes: Insomnia's Toll |
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63 | (16) |
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7 Downers, Benzos, and Z-Drugs: The Commercialization of Sleep |
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79 | (16) |
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8 The Social Divide: Separating Sleep from Consciousness |
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95 | (10) |
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9 When Sleeping Birds Fly: Half Awake and Half Asleep |
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105 | (10) |
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10 The Invisible Labors of Sleep: Memory and Invention |
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115 | (8) |
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11 Knitting Up the "Raveled Sleave of Care": Emotional Restoration |
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123 | (12) |
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12 Sleep Has No Master: Subversive Dreaming |
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135 | (10) |
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13 Ordinary Dreams: When One Hand Washes the Other |
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145 | (14) |
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14 Big Dreams: Encounters with the Other Side |
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159 | (10) |
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15 Waking Up Is Hard to Do: Internal and Social Time |
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169 | (16) |
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16 Enamored with Wakefulness: Phasing Out Sleep |
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185 | (10) |
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17 Waking Up Again: Doubt, Certainty, and the Future of Sleep |
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195 | (10) |
| Acknowledgments |
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205 | (2) |
| Notes |
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207 | (30) |
| Recommended Reading |
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237 | |