Regeneration

 I actually slept well and solidly last night. THIS is the exception and not the uszh. At some point over the past few years I started having a wee THC gummy at bedtime to help me drift off to dreamland. It works. I don’t get high but I do fall asleep. Sometimes, though this is rare, I even slumber the whole night through.

I just got a new tin of these marvelous aids (Strawberry Margarita flavor!). A couple nights ago, I opened it and found giant (okay, relatively giant) spheres versus buttons of weedy goodness. Hmmm, maybe these goody globes are half strength since they’re twice the size of the tabs. Ahhhh…nope. It felt like I was tripping. Mind you, it was a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey but I was chasing a decent night’s rest, NOT time travel back to the ‘70s.

 So, Ten cuts the new gummies in half for me. I get off to sleep without the psychedelic brain show and SOMETIMES even flop out until morning. YEA!

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
~ Werner Herzog

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 OK? 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.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings

What hath night to do with sleep?
~ John Milton, Paradise Lost