On average, we spend about one third of our lives sleeping. ... Dreams come to us to heal us of any imbalance in our lives, to guide us as to what direction we should take with our lives, and to show us why we react as we do to dreams. The primary purpose of each of our lives is the same. ... Dreams come from your soul and are intended to help you progress along your life path. ... Say your soul wants you to be less analytical rational in your approach to life and to incorporate intuition feelings into the decision making process. ...

• Word Count: 3112
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School

Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. ... Prospero acknowledges how important to our lives sleep and dreams are. We enter life from a sleep and re-enter sleep at the end. And dreams are the very stuff that lives are built upon. ... Romeo's second dream comes at the beginning of Act V as he believes he is on his way to finally begin his new life with Juliet. ...

• Word Count: 2655
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School

Sleep is often believed to be an important aspect of daily functioning, a viewpoint most likely originating from the fact that the average person will spend almost a third of their life in a state of sleep. ... After all, if sleep is in any way a necessity of our daily lives, such deprivation would surely prove detrimental in some manner. ...

• Word Count: 3321
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate