Definitions

Internal chronometer, located in the midline of the brain above the optic nerve.  The biological clock is responsible for regulating body temperature, releasing hormones, and controlling the metabolic rate.  Its timekeeping is based on tracking the movement and interaction of molecules.  It is also the primary regulator of sleep and wakefulness.  The biological clock is what keeps us awake.  

Source:

Dement, The Promise of Sleep

Also known as “archaic remnant.” Carl Jung believed that the human mind has a tendency to form representations of mythological motifs that cannot be explained by anything in an individual’s life.  Archetypes would be innate and inherited patterns of the human mind.  Bulkeley calls them “universal psychic images” (34).  Common archetypes can be found across cultures and across time, in art, literature, myth, and religion:  the wise old man/father, the hero, the mother, the crone, the child.  Archetypes would be the bedrock upon which dreams arise.    

Sources:

Jung, “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams"
Bulkeley, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming

J. Allan Hobson’s hypothesis that REM sleep is caused by involuntary neurological processes. Dreams are simply the mind’s attempt to make sense of randomly generated signals.

Sources:

Hobson, Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep
Bulkeley, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming.

Activation-synthesis hypothesis

Archetypes

Biological clock

Circadian rhythm

Clear light dreams

Collective unconscious

Cult of Asclepius

Dreamtime

Dream-work

Dreams of clarity

EEG

Enhypnion

Free association

Hypermnesic dream

Hypnagogic hallucination

Insomnia

Jet lag

Lucid dreaming

Manifest content and latent content

MSLT

Narcolepsy

Nightmare

Night terrors

NREM

Oneiros

Opponent process model

REM

REM behavior disorder

REM sleep

Reverse learning theory

Samsaric dreams

Sleep apnea

Sleep cycle

Sleep debt

Sleeptalking

Sleepwalking

Sweven 

Wish fulfillment

Essais by Michel de Montaigne

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(English) Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays. Trans. M.A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

(French) Montaigne, Michel de. Essais. [Essays]. Oeuvres complètes. [Complete Works]. Ed. Albert Thibaudet and Maurice Rat. Paris: Gallimard, 1962.

Acquainted with the Night by Christopher Dewdney

Twelve poetical essays on night and nighttime culture, including bedtime stories, nocturnal occupations, leisure activities, the physics of darkness, and the neuroscience of the dreaming mind.

Dewdney, Christopher. Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World after Dark.  Bloomsbury, 2004.

Among All These Dreamers, edited by Kelly Bulkeley

A collection of essays that explores the potential for dream study to resolve Western society’s most troubling social conflicts.

Bulkeley, Kelly, ed. Among All These Dreamers: Essays on Dreaming and Modern Society. SUNY Series in Dream Studies. SUNY Press, 1996.