The Best Way to Spend 1/3 of your Life

Unlike the majority of my friends who seem to be chemically wired up to wake up at 7am every morning, I am able to carry on sleeping until mid- afternoon if it suits me, maybe even longer. Leading sleep experts say that the brain is very active at night, I think that perhaps dreams are the brain's way of unravelling your day and all of the significant things that you may have consciously or unconsciously witnessed- that's why sometimes you wonder why you dreamt of Deirdre Barlow until you realise Coronation Street has a good plot line at the moment! 

After watching A Dangerous Method I have taken more time to consider Freud's analyses of dreams. I feel compelled to agree that the major recurring themes are the result of the desires of the stripped back, instinctive, sexually driven part of a person's personality; but then I don't agree that every single part of a dream had meaning that must be interpreted in this way. I do think that a large part of dreaming is one's brain unravelling the complex world it has witnessed that day so that it does not become overwhelmed with lingering information. This is why when one is deprived of sleep, their concentration lacks and higher thinking brain stores shut down as the brain is prioritising it's unravelling mechanism that it uses during sleep. With the amount of hours I seem to be able to pack in, however, I don't think this will be a problem!