Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging the Assumptions -- 2. How to Study Children's Dreams -- The Justification of Sleep-Laboratory Methods -- Are Sleep-Laboratory Dreams "Real" Dreams? -- 3. The Two Studies -- The Longitudinal Study -- The Cross-Sectional Study -- 4. Ages Three to Five -- Paucity of Dreams -- Credibility -- Animals and Body States -- Mental Imagery -- Feelings -- What Dreaming Does -- 5. Ages Five to Nine -- Dreaming Develops -- Longitudinal Study at Ages 5 to 7 -- Longitudinal Study at Ages 7 to 9 -- Cross-Sectional Study at Ages 5 to 8 -- 6. Ages Nine to Fifteen -- Dream Recall -- Active Self-Representation -- Early Adolescent Dreams and Dreaming -- Journey's End -- 7. Dreaming -- Its Development -- Its Conditions and Its Creativity -- Its Functions -- 8. Consciousness -- Infantile Amnesia -- Consciousness Develops -- Consciousness and the Self -- Appendix: Two Children's Dream Reports over Time -- References -- Index.