Aristotle's short treatise analyzing sleep and waking as natural phenomena — sleep is a temporary incapacitation of the sensitive faculty, necessary for the restoration of the sense organs.
Sleep is not mere cessation of activity but a natural process related to digestion — the evaporation of food rises to the brain and causes the cooling that produces sleep. Provides a naturalistic account of a mental phenomenon.
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