What Do Dreams Do?

Sue Llewellyn, Professor in Humanities, University of Manchester

Sue Llewellyn is a Professor in Humanities at the University of Manchester, UK. She has also held Chairs at the Universities of Edinburgh and Leicester, with visiting appointments in Canada, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and Italy. Her background is in health services research. About 10 years ago she began to research and publish on dreams and memory processing across the sleep cycle. She is the author of 4 books and, approximately, 60 journal articles.

Prologue: What do dreams do?
1. What is a dream?
Dream patterns, basics and backstory
2. Dream to see patterns
3. Dream to associate
4. Dream to survive
5. Dream to remember
Dream emotions, meanings and unconscious impact
6. Dream to emote
7. Dream to decide (and act)
8. Dream to predict
9. Dream to predict
Dream creations and craziness
10. Dream to create
11. Dream to go crazy?
Dream theorists and futures
12. Fit with Freud and other theorists
Epilogue: What dreams may come?