bedtime

as i prep myself for sleep (reading the news, checking out blogs, surfing the internet etc.), i've come across a very interesting article from the nytimes about the fine line between consciousness and sleep: the very thing i wondered about this morning. in my dream, i couldn't decipher between the real world and the dream world. my vivid experience of "waking" several times led me to believe that i had actually woken up, when in reality, i was waking up from a dream in my dream. in the past, i've dreamt of negative things only to find myself actually angry or upset, even after the dream had long been over. the very concept of dreams as a gateway to our subconscious is wrought with questions of desire and reality. are we being more real or true in our dreams than when we are in our wakefulness? does that mean that we can only begin to know ourselves by the vague symbols of our dreams? if so, i have no idea who (or what) i am.


http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/what-is-sleep/