To sleep perchance to dream
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
All men are alike when asleep.
I'm a very good sleeper.
Part of how easily we go to sleep is genetic: many sleep disturbances, ranging from insomnia to circadian disruption, have a large genetic component.
It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.
Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.
You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
When we are asleep, we are all equal.
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order.
We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!
We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.
It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.
Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
