Sleep is Freedom

When I go to sleep and dream.,

Everything seems normal: people of whom I have long lost come alive and I do not question it.

Not until I wake up and all sense of reality slowly returns to me.

It is surely a rude awakening.

It is the very same with this pandemic virus..,

In my dreams it does not exist.,

Yet when I awake, it all comes back to me:

I have to isolate, keep social distancing, listen to latest news and worry more.,

Can't wait to go back to sleep again.

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[Phill Oz O'fee]

The legendary Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu, 369-298 BCE) was said to have had a dream that he was flying around as a butterfly and then awoke to find that he was a man. But he had the eerie feeling upon awakening of not knowing whether he was a butterfly dreaming that he was a man or a man dreaming he was a butterfly. An interesting write my friend - makes sleep a restful retreat from our unsafe real world! Bless … :-)

[Christine Peters]

Thanks Phill Oz O'fee for your most intriguing reply.,

It reminds me also of a story I heard a long time ago about a man who fell asleep and then dreamed that he floated up from his bed and sailed out his open window.

He awoke with shock and was relieved that it was just a dream.., then he suddenly floated up again outside his window.

This process just went on and on until he lost track of when he was dreaming or not: a dream within a dream.

Makes you think though - do we really know when or even if we are living real life - or is it just another dream?

I mean, we might be doing all these things whilst really lying in some hospital bed in a coma!

Think on...,

My regards, Chris

[Christine Peters]

Also Phill Oz O'fee, whilst in this thought mode, I did a bit of research on how blind or deaf people dream.

I found it most interesting and I am sure you will too.

People after the age of five who become blind may still have visions within their dreams. Others born blind, will only dream sense of touch or smell.

Deaf people will not hear sounds but only see sign language.

It is all down to what is in our brain storage.

[mel]

I like it, short and simple and to the point. I, myself am a big dreamer. I love sleep.

[Christine Peters]

Thanks for your reply Mel.

Long after I wrote the above, I suddenly realized something more thoughtful..,

When we sleep and dream about people long lost but at that time, we feel sad when we wake up and realize once again that they are gone.

Yet with this global virus, we dream it is not there but when we awake - it is still there!

A kind of complete opposite wakening experience.