Status Updates From Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep

“Sleepwalking, sleep-talking, sleep-driving, sleep-ironing, sleep-cleaning, sleep-sex, sleep-cooking and sleep-eating are all parasomnias. So is sleep-carwashing. So unfortunately, are various forms of sleep violence, including violence to oneself.”

“We all pay an enormous price when people first encounter their sacred texts, as children but then never learn to read them as adults.”

“While alive, Henry VIII— a big bloke — had a bed that was over 3 m². (He did have six wives but not all at once.)” 😂🤣😂

“Aristotle likened the earth to a living body and earthquakes to the exhalation of wind. So a seismic tremor was a bit like someone farting in the middle of the night.” 😂🤣😂

“Ironically, the usual Latin word for bed — the word Virgil doesn’t use here — survives in English as lectern, a place for reading rather than sleeping (although it can be both if your book isn’t much good).” 😂😅🤣

“A town that never sleeps is, of course, one that never wakes either.”

“A breathing mask is hardly the most alluring item of intimate apparel. The alternative, I explained to Jenny, was the equivalent of sleeping beside an idling V12 engine.” 😂🤣😂

“Waking, of course, can have traumas of its own. The fairytales never tell you that: Sleeping Beauty wakes after 100 years and everything is gorgeous. The prince finds his way through the thicket of thorns, plants the kiss we have been waiting for, and everyone in the castle rises and shines and gets on with life as if nothing has happened.”

I only know that while I #sleep I have no fear, nor hope, nor trouble, nor glory. God bless the inventor of sleep.”
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~ Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)