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greenstormSleep, like food, is one of the essentials of life.
Like food, one needs to indulge in sleep every day, or every night as the case may be. Unlike food, sleep can sometimes be elusive, and can't be forced into an odd fifteen minute corner of the day by most people.
Like food, sleep can be a sheer sensory joy and can bring with it a feeling of luxurious indulgence. There are, of course, many mindsets to approach sleep with -- I have gone, myself, through both apprehension and fear when I slept poorly and needed to be awake the next day, through annoyance at the use of time, to anticipation of the soft, heavy suction that pulls me down into the bed and out of consciousness.
I would do well to anticipate more often. Not only do I get to sleep faster when I let myself linger over how pleasant it will be to go to bed, but I enjoy the whole thing more. And what's to lose in enjoying something I need to do anyhow?
Like food, one needs to indulge in sleep every day, or every night as the case may be. Unlike food, sleep can sometimes be elusive, and can't be forced into an odd fifteen minute corner of the day by most people.
Like food, sleep can be a sheer sensory joy and can bring with it a feeling of luxurious indulgence. There are, of course, many mindsets to approach sleep with -- I have gone, myself, through both apprehension and fear when I slept poorly and needed to be awake the next day, through annoyance at the use of time, to anticipation of the soft, heavy suction that pulls me down into the bed and out of consciousness.
I would do well to anticipate more often. Not only do I get to sleep faster when I let myself linger over how pleasant it will be to go to bed, but I enjoy the whole thing more. And what's to lose in enjoying something I need to do anyhow?
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Date: 2003-10-03 10:36 am (UTC)