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prevalence of, 25–26

self-diagnosis and online problem solving, 237–240

as term, 73

treatment of, 233–279

types of, 27–28, 34–35

Internet, the, 6, 29, 40–43, 93, 165–168, 237–244, 248–254, 279

Invocation of My Demon Brother

Iranzo, Alex, 54 n

IT (King), 16

Jackson, John, 76

Jackson, Michael, 61, 233

Jelloun, Tahar Ben

JLIAT

JODI, 245–247

Jones, Jim, 89

journaling, 8–9, 162

Joyce, James, 194

Kabbalah, 173

Kant, Immanuel, 74–75

Kellerman, Henry, 27, 27 n , 232 n

Kersten, Felix, 232–233

key/lock imagery, 14–15, 23, 39, 56, 102, 124, 127, 131–132, 145, 154–156, 171, 174, 202–203, 205–207, 210, 234, 259, 263, 278, 282–283

King, Stephen, 16

Koresh, David, 91

Kubrick, Stanley, 187, 209, 253–254

Lacan, Jacques, 170

language disturbance

sleep speaking, 191–192, 271

snoring, 172, 175

Last Year at Marienbad

LaVey, Anton, 88–89

“Lecture on Nothing” (Cage), 104–106

Ledger, Heath, 90

Leger, Lawrence A., 57 n

Levinas, Emmanuel, 169, 170, 198–199

Lewycky, Samantha, 234 n

“Library of Babel, The” (Borges), 195–196

light, 22–23, 29, 77–78, 79, 84, 145, 262

Lispector, Clarice, 62 n , 95, 180–181

Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine

Lost Highway

Louis XV, 73–74

lucid dreaming, 159–163, 173–174

Lugaro, Ernesto, 77

Lunesta, 270–275

Lynch, David

MacNish, Robert, 76

Magic Eye paintings, 251

man in white car imagery, 123–126, 128, 129, 130–139, 214, 218–221

Marais, Jean, 188

Marcus, Ben, 172, 172 n , 188–189, 253

marijuana, 27

Markson, David, 63 n , 194

Massumi, Brian, 119, 119 n , 197 n

masturbation, 154–156, 165–168, 263

McDonald’s, 63–64

McSweeney, Joyelle, 65, 65 n

meditation, 173, 240, 245

memory, 36. See also dementia

mesmerism, 74

metamorphosis of elements (Artaud), 184

Mezzanine, The

Microsoft, 241

Middle-earth Role Playing

Might and Magic II

mirrors, 13, 17–18, 22–23, 45, 48, 66, 66 n , 92, 122, 134, 179–180, 183, 190, 193, 195–196, 199–200, 206, 212–213, 222

Molloy

monitoring system (MS), of brain, 59–60

Moniz, Egas, 86

Montgomery, Iain, 237 n

Morin, Charles M., 25 n , 27 n , 118 n , 232 n , 262 n

Mount Analogue (Daumal), 177–178

moving limbs, 27, 73

Mulholland Drive

Murphy, William L., 81

music, 22, 161

Music for Airports

Mussolini, Benito

MySpace, 93

nakedness, 164–165

Nancy, Jean-Luc, 67 n

napping, 54–55, 77, 159–163

narcolepsy, 81, 89

NASCAR, 207, 240

Nembutal, 176

Nesterchuk, Fyodor, 115

neurons, 77

Nicholson, Jack, 187

nicotine, 27

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 80

night eating syndrome, 152–153

night terrors, 7–8, 9–10, 12, 15, 23–25, 27, 95–103

nightclothes, 36

Nightmare on Elm Street films, 97–98

nightmares, 73

Nightwood (Barnes), 193

Nix (Greek god of night), 71

nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder, 86, 175–176

nodding off, 54–55, 77, 159–163

non-rapid eye movement (NREM), 85–86, 232

nothing, 19–23, 37, 56, 103–107, 121, 229–279

Nyquil, 259

obesity, 107–108, 152–154, 162–163

obsession, 57

occult, 73, 173

OCD, 29

online forums, 40–43, 93, 165–168, 237–240, 253–254, 279

onset of sleep, 21, 55–59, 62–67

operating system (OS), of brain, 59–60

orgasm, 154–155, 167

Orpheus (film), 188

Other, the, 169–170, 178–179

Ouija boards, 146

out-of-field (Deleuze), 198–199

outer space, 11

overeating, 152–154

oxygen, 74

Paesmans, Dirk, 245–246

painkillers, 264

paradoxical insomniacs, 27

parasites, 29

parasomnias, 27, 174–176

Parks, Kenneth, 174

Pasithea (Greek goddess of hallucination), 71

Pavlov, Ivan, 83

Perkin, Graham, 237 n

personality traits, 34

pillows, 25, 30–31, 52, 207–208

pineal gland, 72

Pinel, Philippe, 61

poker

Pollock, Jackson, 54

Poltergeist (film), 184–186

poltergeists, 73, 184–186, 193

pornography, 155–159

Pressman, Mark R., 175 n

Preyer, Thierry, 78–79

priapism, 264

primary insomnia, 26–27

Proust, Marcel, 60, 190

psychophysiological insomniacs, 27–28

Purkinje, Johannes, 76

quality of sleep, 153–154

Quran, the

Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 77

Rao, Madhu N., 154 n

rape, 175

rapid eye movement (REM), 80, 83–86, 232

Rauschenberg, Robert

rebound anxiety, 270

rebound insomnia, 270

repetition, 10, 11, 36, 245 n

restless legs, 27, 73

Rimbaud, Arthur

Ripley’s Believe It or Not

Rolando, Luigi, 76

Roth, Eugene F., 6 n

Rothko, Mark

Rowland, Perrin, 74 n

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 65 n , 169–170

Satan, 75

Satanic Bible, The (LaVey), 88–89

Schenck, Carlos H., 54 n

schizophrenia, 29, 29 n , 34, 193, 245

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 50 n

Schotte, David E., 59 n

Scientology

secondary insomnia, 27–28

Shining, The (film), 183, 185

silence, 12–15, 17–18, 22–24, 26, 41 n , 43, 45, 51, 56, 59, 62, 64–65, 67, 72, 86, 101, 103–105, 110, 121–122, 131–132, 142, 144–146, 149, 166, 181, 191–192, 227, 229, 246, 249, 252, 254, 263, 268, 280–281, 283

skin, 53, 102–103, 182–183, 209, 217–219, 226

sleep. See also insomnia

as death, 6–7, 26, 29, 46 n , 97–98

death during, 26

defining, 9–10

history of night, 69–94

vocabulary of, 46 n

Sleep (film), 181–182

sleep aids, 28, 71, 77, 79, 90–92. See also sleep medicine

sleep apnea, 27, 81, 175

sleep associations, 87–88

sleep catastrophizing, 38–39

sleep deprivation. See also insomnia

causes of, 115–116

fear of sleeplessness, 102

impact of, 6–7, 21, 114, 116–122, 230–233

intentional, 114–115

for long time periods, 106–123

records for, 114–115

sleep disorder centers, 87–88, 274–275

sleep duration, 82, 92–93, 154

sleep efficiency (SE), 261–262

sleep labs, 21

sleep-maintenance insomniacs, 28

sleep manipulation, 160–163

sleep medicine, 80, 83, 87–88, 90, 176, 204, 235–236, 259–260, 264–275

sleep-onset insomniacs, 28

sleep patterns, 231–232

sleep position, 20, 24–25, 30–33, 52, 55–56, 78, 91

sleep problems. See also insomnia

causes of, 28–29

forms of, 73

inherited, 8–9

sources of, 77, 81

sleep speaking, 191–192, 271

sleep-wake cycle, 27, 74, 84

sleep window, 262

sleeping epidemics, 82

sleepwalking, 93, 174, 175, 176

Sling Blade (film), 64 n

smell, 133, 135, 138, 139

snoring, 172, 175

Soini, Toimi, 114

Solanas, Valerie, 88

Solaris

Sommer, Wilhelm, 78–79

somnambulism, 93, 174, 175, 176

somniloquy