I feel sleep's disorientating grip on my shoulder.
I didn't sleep last night.
Sleep is odd. I've found that it's possible to be entirely conscious while asleep. When thought back on, this seems like an entirely obvious fact. One is conscious in dreams is one not? But I'm talking about, being awake conscious, then passing into sleep without losing that.
Do we ever lose it, or is our memory just turned off? Do we have the same epiphany every night where we suddenly realise that we're conscious in sleep anyway but never remember it?
On the other side of the spectrum, there's the idea that we might not even dream. Dreams might just be memories that get constructed as we sleep, which we look back on when we wake up.
Of course, this leads us to the question of what consciousness is. Since this seems an impossible question, this entry will end here.
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