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Adam was created in God's image and through Adam's rib, Eve was created. The Bible states that Adam was placed in a "deep sleep". This appears the first place that "sleep" is mentioned in the Creation story. Did Adams dream during this period of "sleeping", and if so, what would he have dreamed? Did Adam and Eve sleep prior to this time? There is no scriptural evidence to say they did or did not. Since the body when in deep sleep experiences REM, would Adam have dreamed of his creation, his naming of the animals, and the recurrent thought on God's words "Thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil lest you die". It could be implied God supplied Adam with intelligence only to a limited degree and that as a "created image of God", he had sufficient knowledge to be the caretaker of the Garden of Eden. As caretaker and namer of all the animals, he was familiar with the characteristics of the serpent, but was Eve? Did Eve have knowledge of the animals of the garden? The scripture does not say, but she recognized the serpent, and was not alarmed, nor unfamiliar with his kind. What drew her to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? The serpent possessed by the Seraphim Angel, Satan, "beguiled" Eve, as to confuse her, lead her astray, but because Eve did not have the knowledge of good and evil, only that of choice, did she know her choice was wrong only after she tasted the fruit? Was Eve too trusting of the serpent, perhaps did not know that the serpent was possessed by the rebellious Archangel, or was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was in itself the test of Eve's will? We do not know God's purpose for placing a forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden, nor can we trust our own intelligence in assuming what intent lay in placing this forbidden tree beside that of the Tree of Eternal Life. Yet, when Adam "awoke" from his deep sleep, what was Eve engaged in? Eve was God's gift of companionship to Adam, because God "saw" that Adam was alone and needed a "help meet". Was it the eighth day when God realized that Adam "created in His image" was alone. God's realization came with the "warning" that The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was "forbidden fruit" and by partaking of it, meant death. Only Adam was present for this command, for Eve was yet to be made. God followed up with Eve being formed from Adam's rib, but there is no scripture that states Adam was responsible for telling Eve about the "forbidden fruit" or that God, likewise, would warn Eve of this error, if partaken of, would lead to death. The scriptures are silent. In the last verse of Genesis 2, verse 25, the Bible states "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed". As night follows day, this would change.