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Taken in context out of a forum topic. Henjoy.

Its different every time.
Sometimes, its blissfully swift. You close your eyes, and when you open them, the clock's hands have raced around its surface like wild stallions down a racetrack, forever circling but never getting anywhere.
Then, there is the dream-sleep, where your mind is perpetrated by thousands of images from days past, days to come and sometimes of the preposterous. These dreams are a rare look into your inner psyche, you should cherish them while they last but not ponder upon them, for you will only frustrate yourself in your trying to understand. For who can understand humans, the most fragile and complex of beings?
Dream sleeps can take many forms, sometimes being dreams of happy things, such as the smell of rain, or the cool breeze blowing through feilds of daisies on a warm summers day, with the sun exuding freindly warmth. Sometimes, however, dreams can be of bad things, expressing your inner anxieties. These dream-sleeps are less than ideal, but are still an interesting look into ourselves.
These two kinds of sleep are the basis of all humanity. Other forms of sleep are almost always influenced by some outward source... the tossing-and-turning sleep, which is almost always induced by previous actions, and the drug-induced sleep are to be avoided.
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Man, I got a little poetic in that one. Might want to save it.