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., 154n
rape, 175
rapid eye movement (REM), 80, 83–86, 232
Rauschenberg, Robert
rebound anxiety, 270
rebound insomnia, 270
repetition, 10, 11, 36, 245n
restless legs, 27, 73
Rimbaud, Arthur
Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Rolando, Luigi, 76
Roth, Eugene F., 6n
Rothko, Mark
Rowland, Perrin, 74n
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 65n, 169–170
Satan, 75
Satanic Bible, The (LaVey), 88–89
Schenck, Carlos H., 54n
schizophrenia, 29, 29n, 34, 193, 245
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 50n
Schotte, David E., 59n
Scientology
secondary insomnia, 27–28
Shining, The (film), 183, 185
silence, 12–15, 17–18, 22–24, 26, 41n, 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, 46n, 97–98
death during, 26
defining, 9–10
history of night, 69–94
vocabulary of, 46n
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), 64n
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
Somnus (Roman god of sleep), 71
sound, 21–22, 23, 29, 84, 94, 110, 150, 175
space, fear of, 169–200
Sparling, Ken, 210n
spells, 239n
Stalin, Joseph, 233
Stanford Sleepiness Scale, 262
Stearns, Peter N., 74n, 78n
stimulants, 262
Stone, Geo, 176n
stress, 28, 171, 263
Strong, Stanley R., 237n
suicide, 44–47, 92, 176, 185, 230, 236, 272
Sukenick, Ronald, 67n, 194–195
Suspiria (film), 183
Swann’s Way (Proust), 60, 190
Sydenham, Thomas, 73
synesthesia
Talking Heads
Tarkovsky, Andrei
tattoos, 132, 157
telephone, 143, 218, 254
television, 86, 89–90, 91, 150, 155, 161, 233
temperature, 32–33
terror, 9–10, 16–18, 58–59. See also fear; night terrors
“Texts for Nothing” (Beckett), 67n, 85, 85n
Thai Ngoc, 115
Thanatos (Greek god of death), 71
Thirty Are Better Than One (Warhol), 180–181
This Is Not a Novel (Markson), 194
Thousand Plateaus, A (Deleuze and Guattari), 41–42n, 90, 90n
Tillman, Lynne, 63n
Time Bandits
time capsule, 4–5
torture, 5–6, 73–74
Tost, Tony, 49n
Tractatus (Wittgenstein), 192
transient insomnia, 34
trazodone, 264
Tripp, Peter, 114
Trobe, Kala, 239n
Tudor, David, 86
tunnels, 9, 16, 66, 107, 156, 186, 188, 190, 202, 206, 211, 212, 218, 222, 239, 244, 267
Twin Peaks, 233
Twitter, 253–254
Tylenol PM, 260, 275
Van de Laar, Merijin, 34n
Van Gogh, Vincent, 233
video games, 245–246
Vincent, Norah, 234n
violence, 174–176
against others, 174–175
toward self, 44–47, 92, 175–176, 230, 236, 272
Waldeyer, Heinrich, 77
Wallace, David Foster, 195
Warhol, Andy, 43n, 54–55, 88, 180–182, 182n
water imagery, 160
Watson, John, 83
Watts, Alan, 62n
Webb, Ethel, 51n
Wegner, D. M., 59
Weston, Maureen, 114
white noise, 22
Willis, Thomas, 73
Winchester Mystery House
wire imagery, 214–219
Wise, Deirdre, 237n
witching hour, 9
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 192
Wong, Tobias, 176
Yahoo! Answers. See online forums
YouTube, 93, 240, 253
Acknowledgments
Deepest gratitude and thanks to my editor Cal Morgan, without whom this book would not exist; to Carrie Kania and Bill Clegg, for the constantly amazing support and faith; to the entire tireless Harper Perennial team, particularly Gregory, Justin, Milan, Erica, Michael, and Brittany; to my family and home friends; to everyone at HTMLGiant and my internet friends and internet-flesh friends and sleep-people and the unreal; to so many who’ve been so kind.
Notes
1 From “The Most Commonly Used Torture Methods Applied to Victims Seen at the Danish Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims” (Roth, 1405).
2 Ibid.
3 Bonnet and Arrand, 9–15.
4 Ibid.
5 Morin, 69.
6 Kellerman, 199.
7 Morin, 39–40.
8 A study of schizophrenics found they sleep on average two hours and twelve minutes a night (Gove, 790), a figure comparable to the sleep of a giraffe.
9 Van de Laar et al.
10 Gove, 793.
11 Harvey and Greenall, 12.
12 Ibid., 15–17.
13 Each sentence a container for each other sentence.