Introduction: The Flow of Human Experience -- I • Historical, Cultural, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- 1 A Search for the Sources of the Stream of Consciousness -- 2 Asian Interpretations: Transcending the Stream of Consciousness -- 3 The Science of Consciousness -- II • Specific Theoretical Formulations and Links to Basic Research -- 4 The Stream of Consciousness: Implications for a Humanistic Psychological Theory -- 5 The Dominant Action System: An Information-Processing Approach to Consciousness -- 6 Two Streams of Consciousness: A Typological Approach -- III • Experimental Approaches to Studying the Stream of Consciousness -- 7 Experimental Studies of Daydreaming and the Stream of Thought -- 8 Modes of Normal Conscious Flow -- 9 How Gender, Solitude, and Posture Influence the Stream of Consciousness -- 10 Dreams and Waking Fantasy -- 11 A Biologic Rhythm in Waking Fantasy -- IV • Implications and Broader Perspectives -- 12 Attention and the Holistic Approach to Behavior -- Author Index.