Curious ideas in here for people with sleep issues.

Curious ideas in here for people with sleep issues.

Originally shared by Rob Gordon

A third state of consciousness?  This article describes something I have heard before - that it is not our nature to sleep in a single eight hour shift, but rather in two shorter sessions of different kinds of sleep, with a kind of third state of consciousness between the two.

I have been in that third state - but not very often - perhaps once a year.   In it, I am awake - even alert in a way - but don't really care about anything.  I usually walk outside.  I can still think, but more slowly - it is hard to describe. 

This article describes how to conjure this state.   Not something I can do in my life at the moment, but it is going on the bucket list.  
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05/19/want-to-experience-the-deep-mystical-sleep-of-our-ancestors-turn-your-lights-off-at-dusk/

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  1. Bill Pusztai26 May 2015 at 10:36

    I wish we lived in a society where this was an option. I've done it for short periods of time and it really is wonderful.

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