Google SafeSearch, 249
Göransson, Johannes, 250, 250n
Gove, Walter R., 29n, 36n, 193n
Greenall, Emmeline, 38n
Grey Gardens
grief, 28
Guattari, Félix, 41–42n, 50n, 90
Guinness World Records, 92, 114, 172n
Hackett, Pat, 182n
Hai Gaon, 173
hallucination, 41–42n, 71, 114
Hammond, William A., 76, 76n, 236n
Harris, Hilary
Harvey, Allison G., 38n
head position, 30–31, 52
headache, 234–235
Heart of Glass
Hedberg, Mitch, 63
Heemskerk, Joan, 245–246
Hegel, Georg, 169
Hejinian, Lyn, 151
Herpin, Al, 114–115
Herzog, Werner
Himmler, Heinrich, 232–233
Hippocrates, 71–72, 76
history of night, 69–94
Hitchcock, Alfred, 236
Hitler, Adolf, 232–233
hole imagery, 3–4, 9–10, 13, 23, 39, 40–43
Holy Bible, the, 26, 70, 173–174, 185
homicide, 174–175
horror films, 11–12, 97–98, 183–186
horror stories, 16–17, 146–147
hotels, 128, 183, 186
Houdini, Harry, 81
houses
architecture of, 9–10, 71, 184–189
evolution of, 71, 73, 75, 77–78, 79, 86
How to Sleep (film), 54
Hume, David
hypersensory experiences, 34–35
hypersomnia, 27
hypnopompic state, 99–100
Hypnos (Greek god of sleep), 71
hypnotism, 74, 77, 236–237, 240, 253, 255–257
Idel, Moshe, 173
Incandenza, James O., 195
Infinite Jest (Sukenick), 194–195
Inland Empire, 246
insomnia
causes of, 28–29
cost of, 92–93
diagnosing, 26–27, 237–240
impact of, 13–14, 21, 26–27, 35–36, 89, 91, 93, 170–172, 230–233
nature of, 169–170, 206–207
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, 54n
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, 27n, 232n
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., 57n
Levinas, Emmanuel, 169, 170, 198–199
Lewycky, Samantha, 234n
“Library of Babel, The” (Borges), 195–196
light, 22–23, 29, 77–78, 79, 84, 145, 262
Lispector, Clarice, 62n, 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, 172n, 188–189, 253
marijuana, 27
Markson, David, 63n, 194
Massumi, Brian, 119, 119n, 197n
masturbation, 154–156, 165–168, 263
McDonald’s, 63–64
McSweeney, Joyelle, 65, 65n
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, 66n, 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, 237n
Morin, Charles M., 25n, 27n, 118n, 232n, 262n
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, 67n
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, 237n
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., 175n