This week at Keene State College it was spring break for college students, so I did not have any classes. But I got the opportunity to do some extra reading in The Essentials of Abnormal Psychology textbook so that I will be ready for the exam that will be coming up soon. Chapter eight covered a lot of information about sleep and eating disorders that I found to be interesting. People spend about one third of their lives sleeping, which would mean that in a one whole year people spend about 3,000 hours asleep. Research has found that about one out of seven people get less then 7 hours of sleep a night during the work week. Research has also found that even minor sleep deprivation over a couple of days can make people's thought processing abililities unclear. People who report having less sleep have been found also to have more health problems, which is probably because their immune system functioning is reduced with the loss of just even a few hours of sleep. Today sleep disorders are treated with long acting and short acting medicines, which are usually benzodiazepine or related type medicines. There are also different environmental treatments for sleep disorders, such as readjusting sleeping patterns and times. And finally there is also psychological treatment for sleeping disorders that can consist of relaxation techniques and stimulus control. Stimulus control means that people are instructed not to use their bedroom for any work or anxiety provoking activities. I think understanding more about sleeping patterns is important in the field of psychology because people have important and meaningful dreams and because without sleep daily functioning would be a serious problem. I think this chapter was interesting because it had important research facts about sleep and also because I find this topic interesting because Freud, Jung and other psychologists emphasized how important sleep was through their theories.