Going to bed seems like a pretty basic thing, but people prepare a lot for it. They change their clothes, and wash their face and teeth, some people even prepare a mask or play some chillout sounds.

Sleep is a very disagreeable thing. It’ll sneak up on you when you’re in a meeting and try to seduce you with a satirical daydream, but when you are cosy in bed it seems to tease you with it’s absence.

We don’t want sleep. In this period of time sleep is such a waste of costly time, yet we all crave it. We desire it. We want to return to the land of nod where your day to day life is forgotten, and your ambitions and your dreams can be explored. At some point you know you’ll have to leave that dream, but just having it and knowing you will return is enough to cope with the absence of it later.

Someone great said “It is better to have dreamed and awoke than to never have dreamed at all…” It got changed at a later date but who’s looking at it that seriously anyway.