Dreams

What happens when the mind wakes up inside sleep: the lab science of lucid dreaming, the rival theories of Freud and Jung, and the dream yogas of Tibet.

• Did Kekulé Really Dream the Benzene Ring? A chemist said a snake biting its tail showed him benzene's structure. He told the story 25 years late, and no one else saw it.
• The Red Book: Jung's Private Descent Into the Unconscious Carl Jung spent sixteen years painting his own visions into a red leather folio. Then it sat unread for half a century.
• Lucid Dreaming Was Proven in a Lab With a Flick of the Eyes In 1975 a sleeping man in Hull signaled to the waking world with his eyes, and a disputed experience became a measurable fact.
• Freud Versus Jung: Two Theories of What Dreams Are For One saw the dream as a disguise, the other as a correction. Then sleep science arrived and declined to pick a winner.
• Tibetan Dream Yoga: A Thousand Years of Waking Up Asleep Long before sleep labs, Tibetan yogis trained to stay conscious in dreams. Lucidity was only the first step, and death was the real subject.