Sleep

To dream of sleeping on clean, fresh beds, denotes peace and favor from those whom you love.

To sleep in unnatural resting places, foretells sickness and broken engagements.

To sleep beside a little child, betokens domestic joys and reciprocated love.

To see others sleeping, you will overcome all opposition in your pursuit for woman's favor.

To dream of sleeping with a repulsive person or object, warns you that your love will wane before that of your sweetheart, and you will suffer for your escapades.

For a young woman to dream of sleeping with her lover or some fascinating object, warns her against yielding herself a willing victim to his charms.
  

The natural state of rest in which body and mind are not conscious. Sleep is certainly essential for survival, but obviously also has psychological functions.

See also:
doze, flake out, doss, nap, and slumber

  

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
  

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
  

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.