Sleep has been described in oral terms, has been compared with death, and described as a defense against motility. During the analytic hour it can be a defense against aggressive impulses toward the analyst. Bird describes the analysis of a thirteen-year-old boy who became acutely disturbed with a condition resembling schizophrenia. He had previously been 'too good' a boy: no temper, no anger. During treatment he frequently fell asleep, sometimes reporting dreams occurring in this sleep. His rich productions before and after these episodes of sleep enabled the therapist to reconstruct clearly the meanings of the falling asleep. It served to ward off passive sexual wishes and also as a defense against aggression. The patient looked on activity as terribly dangerous and destructive, but going to sleep also represented seduction, an invitation to the analyst to do whatever he wanted with the patient. In the dreams he fulfilled these passive sexual wishes. The sleep itself became sexualized by the process of conversion from a state in which consciousness itself had become