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Tag: literature of sleep

Posted on April 29, 2018April 29, 2018

“We tire of distraction or concentration. we sleep and are glad to sleep”

From “Choruses from the Rock”, T S Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

From “Sleep”, Haruki Murakami

It’ been a while since I blogged about the literature of sleep which was formerly a recurrent theme here. So here is the opening of a Haruki Murakami story call…

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Posted on May 30, 2017July 25, 2017

“it is astonishing that each morning we wake up sane – that is, relatively sane -after having passed through that zone of shades, those labyrinths of dreams”

Lately I’ve been rereading psychology books, and have felt singularly defrauded. All of them discuss the mechanisms of dreams or the subjects of dreams, but they do not mention, as…

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Posted on April 23, 2016

Sleep and dreams

One of my interests is sleep. Some of this is personal; I  used to think I was a “bad sleeper”, until I discovered that thinking you are a bad sleeper makes…

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Posted on February 5, 2016February 7, 2016

Heraclitus on sleep: from “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner

Grammatical construction can make of an apparent riddle or paradox a font of expanding intuition: “Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep.” Ring-structures spiral…

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