The secret history of dreaming

Introduction: fields of dreaming

Secret engines of history

Earth speakers and dream travelers

Interpreters and diviners

Divine dreaming

The angel that troubles the waters

From the dream library

How dreaming gets us through

Masters of the three "only" things

Joan of Arc and the tree-seers

The beautiful dream spy of Madrid

The underground railroad of dreams

Mark Twain's rhyming life

The man who blew things up

Winston Churchill's time machines

Epilogue: the future history of dreaming.