When the sandman comes: falling asleep
Opening the inn for phantoms: surrendering to sleep
Cribs, cradles, and slings: sleeping babies across cultures
Sleep stages: Western science and Eastern philosophy
Between sleeps: the midnight watch
When sleep never comes: insomnia's toll
Downers, benzos, and z-drugs: the commercialization of sleep
The social divide: separating sleep from consciousness
When sleeping birds fly: half awake and half asleep
The invisible labors of sleep: memory and invention
Knitting up the "raveled sleave of care": emotional restoration
Sleep has no master: subversive dreaming
Ordinary dreams: when one hand washes the other
Big dreams: encounters with the other side
Waking up is hard to do: internal and social time
Enamored with wakefulness: phasing out sleep
Waking up again: doubt, certainty, and the future of sleep.