Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-382) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abraham -- Activation-synthesis model of dreaming -- Adaptive theory -- Alfred Adler -- Aesculapius -- Age and dreams -- Aguaruna -- Akashic records -- Alchemy -- Alcohol -- Alien abduction -- Analyze this -- Ancestors -- Angels -- Anger and aggression -- Anima (and animus) -- Animal dreams -- Animals -- Anthropology of dreams -- Arabia -- Archetypes (archetypal dream images) -- Aristotle -- Art and dreams -- Artemidorus of Daldis -- Ashanti -- Association for the Study of Dreams -- Astral projection -- Astrology -- Australia -- Bed-wetting (enuresis) -- Henri-Louis Bergson -- Berti -- Bible and dreams -- Bizarreness of dreams -- Medard Boss -- Buddhism -- Joseph Campbell -- Cancer dreams -- Carlos Castaneda -- Censorship in dreams -- Chase dreams -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- The child archetype -- Children's nightmares -- China -- Christianity, Early -- Chuang-tzu -- Cicero -- Circadian rhythms -- Clairvoyance -- Collective unconscious -- Communication with Gods -- Community Dreamsharing Network -- Compensatory dreams -- Condensation -- Control of nightmares -- Creative visualization -- Creativity and dreaming -- Cree -- Daniel -- Day residues in dream contents -- Daydreams -- Death dreams -- Deficiency explanations of dreams -- Déjà vu -- Democritus -- Demons -- René Descartes -- Diet and dreams -- Displacement -- Divination -- Dream body -- Dream control -- Dream cycles -- Dream diaries -- Dream dictionaries -- Dream fragments -- Dream guide -- Dream incubation -- Dream Network -- Dream sharing -- Dreamlet -- DreamLight -- Dreamstuff -- Dreamwork -- Drugs, Effects on dreams.

ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) -- EEG (electroencephalogram) -- Ego -- Egypt, Ancient -- Mircea Eliade -- EMG (electromyogram) -- EOG (electrooculogram) -- ESP (extrasensory perception) -- Evil and dreams -- Falling dreams -- Caroline Finley -- Flying dreams -- Folklore and dreams -- Michel Foucalt -- Frankenstein -- Sigmund Freud -- Patricia Garfield -- Gilgamesh -- Gola -- Francisco Goya -- Greece, Ancient -- Greek drama -- Guilt -- Calvin Hall -- Hallucinations and dreams -- Ernest Hartmann -- Hausa -- Hawaii -- Healing and dreams -- Heraclitus -- Hero archetype -- James Hillman -- Adolf Hitler -- Thomas Hobbes -- Homer and dreams -- Hopi -- Karen Horney -- Hypnagogic experiences -- Hypnopompic experiences -- Hypnosis -- Ibn al-'Arabi --Id -- Igbo --Incubi and succubi -- India -- Ingessana -- Initiation -- Interpretation of dreams -- Inuit (Eskimo) -- Iroquois -- Islam -- Jacob -- Jerks during sleep (myclonic jerk) -- Saint Jerome -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Joseph (husband of Mary) --Joseph (son of Jacob) -- Judaism -- Carl Gustav Jung -- K-Complexes and spindles -- Franz Kafka -- Kagwahiv -- Kalapalo -- Stephen LaBerge -- Laboratories, Sleep -- Latent dream (or latent dream content) -- Lilith -- Logoli -- Lucid dreaming -- Lucidity Association -- Lucidity Institute -- John E. Mack -- Macrobius -- Mandala archetype -- Manifest dream (or manifest dream content) -- Alfred Maury -- Memory and sleep -- Metaphor, Dreams as -- Middle Ages -- Mohave -- Morocco -- Movies, Dreams in -- Muhammad -- Mysticism -- Mythology and dreams -- Nakedness, Dreams of -- Native Americans -- Natural disaster dreams -- Navaho -- Near-death experiences and dreams -- New age -- New religions (dream revelations) -- Night terrors -- Night visions -- Nightmares -- Nondreamers.

Occult -- Ojibwa -- Oneiromancy -- Ononharoia (Feast of Fools) -- Otherworld and dreams -- Out-of-body experiences -- Ovid -- Blaise Pascal -- Saint Paul -- Penile erections -- Fritz Perls -- Persona -- Saint Peter -- Plato -- Possession -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Precognitive dreams -- Pregnancy nightmares -- Primary process -- Problem solving in dreams -- Projection -- Psychomanteum -- Psychotherapy -- Quechua -- Quiche -- Raramuri -- Rastafarians -- Reality as a dream -- Recurring dreams -- Religion and dreams -- REM (rapid eye movement) sleep -- Repression -- Revelation, Book of -- Rip Van Winkle effect -- Rome, Ancient -- Hervey de Saint-Denys -- Sambia -- Secondary process -- Secondary revision -- Senoi -- Sex and dreams -- Shadow -- William Shakespeare -- Shaman and shamanism -- Shamanic initiatory dreams -- Sleep, death, and dreams -- Sleep deprivation -- Sleep depth -- Sleep learning -- Sleep paralysis (sleep immobility) -- Sleep talking (somniloquy) -- Sleepwalking (somnambulism) -- Somatic phenomenon -- Soul and dreams -- Stages of sleep -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Stress, anxiety, and dreams -- Structuralism -- Subconscious -- Superego -- Symbolism of dreams -- Symbolization -- Synesius of Cyrene -- Barbara Tedlock --Teeth and dentistry dreams -- Temne -- Tertullian -- Theosophy -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Tibet -- Tikopia -- Tiriki -- The trickster archetype -- Tsunami (tidal wave) dreams -- Tukolor -- Unconscious -- The underworld -- Unpreparedness dreams -- Upanishads (or Upanishadic Hinduism) -- Vedas -- Vision quests -- Visions and dreams -- Visitation dreams -- Marie-Louise von Franz -- Voodoo and dreams -- Water dreams -- The wise old woman (or man) archetype -- The Wizard of Oz -- Yansi -- Yoga -- Yoruba -- Zezuru -- Zulu -- Zuni -- Introduction to dream symbols -- Dream symbols -- Research sources -- Index.