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Mysteries of Sleep and Dreaming
Mysteries of Sleep and Dreaming
By Georgi Y. Johnson
“Sleep is not the opposite of awakening. Illusion is the opposite of awakening. Sleep has no opposite.” ~Georgi
Sleep. In the world of inner growth, it is the elephant in the room. The great, enlightened wake-up call is suggesting that humanity is asleep–as if sleep were darkly unenlightened, redundant, purposeless, and uninspired.
Awaken to Sleep
My perception. What is consciousness? What is the unconscious? What is awareness? What is the imperceivable? What are dreams? What is beyond experience, dreaming, thinking, feeling? What is surrender? What is emptiness?
What is happening in the field of perception when we fall asleep? Where do we go when we sleep, and why is deep sleep so liberating and rejuvenating?
In the twin processes of falling asleep, and waking up, we have an opportunity to realize the perceptive windows of consciousness, awareness, and emptiness.
This is a process of form–of releasing form and taking form–which gives an excellent means to witness and observe the deeper forms of perception, as they relate to the imperceivable. In this, surrender and allowance move into the foreground as key movements in the art of living.
So let’s explore.
The body is tired. Perhaps there is even an emotional tiredness. The mind is tired of thinking about stuff. The dimension of sleep is calling. We lie down in a safe space and close our eyes. The visual input is gone.
Consciousness: Sleep and the Dissolution of Time
In the first stages of falling asleep, the mind continues to chatter, in a manner which is increasingly less rational, less bound by cause and effect or routine patterns. We can witness its wanderings. Perhaps checking off the stuff to do later, or the stuff that happened. Perhaps reflecting on a feeling or an engagement with another in order to close it in a package of peace.
Source: http://omtimes.com/2014/07/mysteries-sleep-dreaming/
My mind never gets tired. I have to force myself to go to bed and often don’t bother because I rarely sleep. The longest time I’ve slept since being an adult is for 5 hours. But that is not normal, most people need to sleep for at least 6 out of every 24 hour period to operate normally. Nobody knows what function sleep and dreams have, but all complex creatures sleep and dream. Until we do know, it’s function is just idle speculation.