Sleeping suspends or diminishes all cognition, enabling states of awareness to rest and to reboot.
Cognition is sensorial, conceptual awareness. The vital organs and bodily functions that facilitate life continue working through sleep, at reduced rates and states.
Sleeping creeps upon cognition in humans incrementally. Slowly, it descends diurnally the like dew.
You never know the precise moment that you fall asleep. You are, of course, conscious of being sleep at times, or not so at times, depending on the depth of sleep.
"How did you sleep?"
Do we know? Yes we do know. Consciousness tells us palpably, physically and mentally, how well we slept. Whether we slept like a log or a baby; or not at all due to pain, stress or other discomfort. As the old song goes "I didn't sleep at all last night, cause I was thinking of you."
Consciousness, which is life's apprehension and appreciation of itself, innervates our total being. Every muscle, nerve, cell, hair, bit of flesh or tooth has life and has consciousness, even the soul.
Consciousness never sleeps until death, bestriding both states of wakefulness: sleep's suspension or diminution of cognition and awareness' state of alertness.
Sometimes sleep descends like a ton of bricks, as when one falls asleep at the wheel while driving. At others, as in medicine, or healing arts, administered drugs induce sleep, even comas, as anesthesia, to allow intervention.
The boundary between being sleep and awake is blurred and often very indistinct, descending at will, when and where it will. Indeed, crossing over into sleep and returning revived from sleep are mysterious states of grace.
Monday, August 17, 2015
SLEEPING IS A STATE OF GRACE
SLEEPING IS A STATE OF GRACE
Sleeping suspends or diminishes all cognition, enabling states of awareness to rest and to reboot.
Cognition is sensorial, conceptual awareness. The vital organs and bodily functions that facilitate life continue working through sleep, at reduced rates and states.
Sleeping creeps upon cognition in humans incrementally. Slowly, it descends diurnally the like dew.
You never know the precise moment that you fall asleep. You are, of course, conscious of being sleep at times, or not so at times, depending on the depth of sleep.
"How did you sleep?"
Do we know? Yes we do know. Consciousness tells us palpably, physically and mentally, how well we slept. Whether we slept like a log or a baby; or not at all due to pain, stress or other discomfort. As the old song goes "I didn't sleep at all last night, cause I was thinking of you."
Consciousness, which is life's apprehension and appreciation of itself, innervates our total being. Every muscle, nerve, cell, hair, bit of flesh or tooth has life and has consciousness, even the soul.
Consciousness never sleeps until death, bestriding both states of wakefulness: sleep's suspension or diminution of cognition and awareness' state of alertness.
Sometimes sleep descends like a ton of bricks, as when one falls asleep at the wheel while driving. At others, as in medicine, or healing arts, administered drugs induce sleep, even comas, as anesthesia, to allow intervention.
The boundary between being sleep and awake is blurred and often very indistinct, descending at will, when and where it will. Indeed, crossing over into sleep and returning revived from sleep are mysterious states of grace.
Sleeping suspends or diminishes all cognition, enabling states of awareness to rest and to reboot.
Cognition is sensorial, conceptual awareness. The vital organs and bodily functions that facilitate life continue working through sleep, at reduced rates and states.
Sleeping creeps upon cognition in humans incrementally. Slowly, it descends diurnally the like dew.
You never know the precise moment that you fall asleep. You are, of course, conscious of being sleep at times, or not so at times, depending on the depth of sleep.
"How did you sleep?"
Do we know? Yes we do know. Consciousness tells us palpably, physically and mentally, how well we slept. Whether we slept like a log or a baby; or not at all due to pain, stress or other discomfort. As the old song goes "I didn't sleep at all last night, cause I was thinking of you."
Consciousness, which is life's apprehension and appreciation of itself, innervates our total being. Every muscle, nerve, cell, hair, bit of flesh or tooth has life and has consciousness, even the soul.
Consciousness never sleeps until death, bestriding both states of wakefulness: sleep's suspension or diminution of cognition and awareness' state of alertness.
Sometimes sleep descends like a ton of bricks, as when one falls asleep at the wheel while driving. At others, as in medicine, or healing arts, administered drugs induce sleep, even comas, as anesthesia, to allow intervention.
The boundary between being sleep and awake is blurred and often very indistinct, descending at will, when and where it will. Indeed, crossing over into sleep and returning revived from sleep are mysterious states of grace.