title: Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations
author: Edward F. Pace-Schott
description: "This is a fascinating book on the state of the science of sleep and dreaming circa 2002." Quarterly Review of Biology
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  # ON SLEEP AND SLEEPLESSNESS
  
  
  ### by Aristotle
  
  
  ##### translated by J. I. Beare
  
  
  
  
  
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  WITH regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are:
  
  
  whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to both; and
  
  
  if common, to what part of soul or body they appertain: further, from
  
  
  what cause it arises that they are attributes of animals, and whether
  
  
  all animals share in them both, or some partake of the one only,
  
  
  others of the other only, or some partake of neither and some of both.
  
  
  
  
  
  Further, in addition to these questions, we must also inquire what
  
  
  the dream is, and from what cause sleepers sometimes dream, and
  
  
  sometimes do not; or whether the truth is that sleepers always dream
  
  
  but do not always rememb