Sleep Lab

Sleep and dreams are measured by the polysomnographic needle. When you reach Stage R, you may be seeing threatening animals, like this dream preserved at the NLM.

Nightmare #80 from St. Elizabeth’s magic lantern slide collection, c1855

  1. I Should Be Sleeping * Mazarin
  2. Sleepyhead * Passion Pit
  3. Sleep Won’t Ever Come * Best Coast
  4. Talking In Your Sleep * The Romantics
  5. Dreaming * Blondie
  6. Behind The Wall Of Sleep * The Smithereens
  7. Enter Sandman * Metallica
  8. Little Dreamer * Van Halen
  9. Memories Can’t Wait * Living Color
  10. No Sleep Till Brooklyn * The Beastie Boys
  11. No Sleep * Wiz Khalifa
  12. Bad News * Kanye West
  13. Sleep Sound * Jamie xx
  14. Asleep and Dreaming * The Magnetic Fields
  15. Asleep * The Smiths
  16. A Forest * The Cure
  17. Elephant Stone * The Stone Roses
  18. Sleep The Clock Around * Belle & Sebastian
  19. When You Sleep * My Bloody Valentine
  20. Dream Baby Dream * Suicide
  21. Where I Sleep * Emeli Sandé
  22. Wake Up * The Arcade Fire
  23. When You Awake * The Band