“People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were
nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. “For the next several
hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious,
temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When
the sun returns, I will resume my life.” If you didn’t know what sleep
was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would
think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen.
“They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day
and be okay? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie
down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop
functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would
have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real
life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their
only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another;
or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and
scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would
drink a lot of coffee.” So, next time you see someone sleeping, make
believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is
regenerating itself.”
~cr to George Carlin.
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