The Psychology of Sleep

An open access monograph that treats dreaming as a cognitive process with a specific brain basis, drawing on decades of laboratory and content analysis studies. Answers where, how, when, what and why we dream, with data instead of symbolism.

G. William Domhoff

A systematic survey of dreaming by one of the first researchers to treat it as a subject for observation rather than prophecy. Covers dream imagery, memory, emotion and the senses, with a chapter on the logic and morality of dreams.

Havelock Ellis

An early scientific treatise on the physiology and psychology of sleep, first read as a series of papers before a psychological society and later reworked into this monograph. Argues from observation and case reports toward a theory of what stays awake while we sleep.

Edward W. Cox