Part 1: EXPERIMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS Sources and Consequences of Dreams: Experimental Manipulations and Their Effects Joseph DeKoninck An Experimental Approach to the Anomalous Dream Stanley Krippner Vestibular Involvement in the Neurocognition of Lucid Dreaming Thomas J. Snyder and Jayne Gackenbach Linguistic and Literary Creativity in Dreams: A Psychoanalytic and an Experimental Approach Frank Heynick
Part 2: CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS Nightmares: Facts, Fictions and Future Directions Kathryn Belicki and Marion A. Cuddy Nightmares and Childhood Dreams Patricia Garfield The Meaning of Dreams: A Current Warning Theory Robert C. Smith Dream Work with Dissociated Patients and a Self Curative Programming Function of Dreams Roy D. Salley A Selective Mood Regulatory Function for Sleep Milton Kramer The Psychobiology of Mental Illness: Changes in the Physiological and Psychological Aspects of Sleep Milton Kramer
Part 3: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS Interdisciplinary Studies of Dreams: Finding a Common Ground Don Kuiken Languages of Dreaming: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Dreaming in Other Cultures Waud H. Kracke Early Hindu Speculation about Dreams: Implications for Dream Yoga George Gillespie
Part 4: CONSIDERATIONS BEYOND DREAMING Reality Dreams and Their Effects on Spiritual Belief: A Revision of Animism Theory Tore A. Nielsen Lucid Dreaming as a Meditative State: Some Evidence from Long-Term Meditators in Relation to the Cognitive-Psychological Bases of Transpersonal Phenomena Harry T. Hunt A Developmental Model of Consciousness in Sleep: From Sleep Consciousness to Pure Consciousness Jayne Gackenbach Subject Index Contributors
Jayne Gackenbach (Author) , Anees A Sheikh (Author)