ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author explains how he came to add the topics sleep and dreams. He discusses how, in any such instance, some childhood dread, some childhood anxiety has been displaced onto death. There are different kinds of sleep and there are different kinds of dreams. The dreamless sleep is the deepest. But the dream performs a very important function in preserving and protecting our sleep. The dream comes and helps protect us in such a way that we continue sleeping by dreaming. S. Freud himself struggled with these three subjects sleep, dreams, and death from the very beginning to the very end of his work in psychoanalysis. The most peaceful sleep is dreamless sleep, but even he suspect that one has blank dreams, a notion which has been put forth by Lewin. The need to sleep varies from person to person, and in each particular person how much sleep is required depends upon many conditions.