Part 1. This thing called sleep

To sleep ...

Caffeine, jet lag, and melatonin: losing and gaining control of your sleep rhythm

Defining and generating sleep: time dilation and what we learned from a baby in 1952

Ape beds, dinosaurs, and napping with half a brain: who sleeps, how do we sleep, and how much?

Part 2. Why should you sleep?

Your mother and Shakespeare knew: the benefits of sleep for the brain

Too extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: sleep deprivation and the brain

Cancer, heart attacks, and a shorter life: sleep deprivation and the body

Part 3. How and why we dream

Routinely psychotic: REM-sleep dreaming

Dreaming as overnight therapy

Dream creativity and dream control

Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transformed

Things that go bump in the night: sleep disorders and death caused by no sleep

iPads, factory whistles, and nightcaps: what's stopping you from sleeping?

Hurting and helping your sleep: pills vs. therapy

Sleep and society: what medicine and education are doing wrong; what Google and NASA are doing right

A new vision for sleep in the twenty-first century

Conclusion: To sleep or not to sleep

Appendix: Twelve tips for healthy sleep.