Chronic condition. Dream, memory ; Dunne and his theory ; Nabokov's experiment -- Dreamer's log -- More dreams. Prior to the experiment ; After the experiment ; In letters to wife ; In the book of memoirs -- The art of dreaming. Professional ; Doom ; Daytime impressions ; Memories of the remote past ; Precognitive ; Erotic ; Nested ; Life is a dream ; Oneitic realism ; Father ; Insomnia -- Artistic time. Two prime mysteries ; The Montreux novels ; Boomeranging time ; Clarity of vision ; Conclusion

First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life