What's the big deal about sleeping..?
..not with someone...but sleeping alone..sleeping for rest..sleeping at night..
I close my eyes, disappear somewhere and when I wake up I'm just as tired. To top that I don't even know what I did for the last 6-8 hours. Ridiculous I say. Hope the 'beauty sleep' will do me good in terms of mood,complexion,energy etc etc, but all I want when I wake up is to dive right back into bed. It's not my fault, it's the bed which does it. Pull me back that is. I only obediently oblige. Purposeful eh!
No dreams are ever re-called. Well, at least I don't remember any of them. Any of the ones that matter that is. The ones I do are too ghastly to think about. Others, silly or insignificant. Maybe embarassing. The good meaty ones dissolve in the drowsiness of the eyelids even before they open. It could have been my future which flew by me while I was in a state of temporary trance.
Sometimes I sleep talk. Scary. I could shock myself into a madness if I heard myself talking in sleep. I waste precious thoughts and words and the world misses out on them. That's not rest, thats torture. First degree. Then there are times I do realise I'm ranting some gibberish and make an effort to understand it. But then I'm asleep. What do I know.
The flip side is that I do love to sleep. I just don't understand why I do it.
Effortless, yet tiring
Calm, yet disturbing
Dreamy, yet realistic
Long, yet completes in the blink of an eye..
Sleep. Slumber. Shut eye. Professors of the sole tiring way of relaxation.
7 comments:
Well written. Now go and sleep :p
everyone needs sleep dude.. if you're living, you need sleep.. thats how it goes..
but this is an interesting thought.. i always wished i could hibernate... or atleast.. sleep for 2 days straight and not sleep for the next 4... now that'd be handy!
Hibernation has always fascinated me..
..but then again..waste an entire winter..hell no! I need to experience every season, every day, every moment...so I'm better off being insomniatic!
I think the craziest part is wakin up..and thts when I wish we didnt have to sleep..but then again I also wish we didnt have to work or study or etc etc etc!!
hehe.. well i said sleep 2 days.. not a whole month! :P
anyways... there are moments i can actually sleep through.. like 10 hours of work !
There is this Buddhist concept of "lucid dreaming" which fascinates me more than just the plain old zzzz. This is when one is an a state of subconscious sleep, aware of their dreams, yet completely resting.
How cool would it be if one could control that? Imagine being alseep and being able to conjure up your own dreams. Would be like free cable with the TV guide as vast as your imagination..
Hehe yeah I read about that too..in a buddhist scripture in Dharamshala! They believe that lucid dreaming is the correct method to attain peace with self and meditation is something that people have started to believe in off late.
I think even the concept of REM vs non REM sleep is fascinating. ..and the fact that we can remember our REM dreams but not the non REM ones is cool simple because the non REM dreams are said to be our future..and hence the danger in being able to recall them. That is why we even have deja-vou's! Absolutely brillaint this little brain of ours..!!
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