Sleep is a very important part of life. You need to sleep in order to have energy. One of the key things about sleep is that it allows you to process information. Sleep serves two main biological processes. These two processes are to conserve and to restore.
             Sleeping patterns vary with personality. Speaking from my own personal sleeping habits, I think I sleep too much. Personally I go into a very deep sleep and do not wake up to anything or anyone. The main reason behind this is because of college and dorm life. When you stay up so late so many days in a row, you can fall into a bad sleeping pattern. This pattern is a very difficult way to live, which I have found out for myself. Living in a dorm can be exhausting due to the constant interruption by other people all day and night. On the other side, as you grow older, your duration of sleep tends to decrease.
             Another depiction in the sleeping pattern is dreams. Dreams play an important role in someone's life. Dreams often represent meaningful events within someone's life. Personally I do not think that I dream a lot, but maybe that is because I cannot remember them. Freud had theorized that dreams have two different levels of meaning. The first meaning is the manifest content which is the storyline of the dream and the second meaning of dreams according to Freud is the latent content, which is the dream's real, but hidden, meaning. Dreams go on to relate to the unconscious mind.
             Psychoanalytic therapists use dream analysis in order to define motives and conflicts within a patient. I remember as a child that I used to have dreams about being kidnapped. I can remember one dream to this very day with all of its particulars. I went through an extreme phase of being scared to death of being kidnapped.
             Cognitive development is another approach to psychology that I have a particular liking to. The reason I like cognitive development is because it pertains to the ...