In a message dated 7/25/02 1:24:43 PM GMT Daylight Time, skutvik@online.no
writes:
> Funnily enough, in an article concerning sleep and dream my favourite
> "epiphany" was mentioned: All creatures sleep .... but the inevitable
> conclusion that they must "wake up" to a state different from sleep was not
>
> drawn. Forgive me for constantly returning to this point, but it is so
> outrageous and I can't understand it being neglected. One CAN'T wake up
> from unconsciousness unless it is to consciousness, but the SOM
> postulates a special kind - the so-called selfconsciousness. In the MOQ
> this
> means that animals wake up to biological consciousness and the human
> beings to the whole range of consciousnesses, not the absolute insight it
> sounds like, and that there are consciousness waiting to be entered ...but
> please no Wilberian "spiritual" realms.
>
> I would have liked to go on, but this is enough.
>
> Bo
>
Hi Bo,
Sleep is behaviour.
We need to behave in this way as we need to behave in ways that we find
nutritious.
Sleep is an active state just as eating is an active state.
As far as sleep and consciousness are concerned, i suspect sleep is
unpatterned and of high quality? Wakefulness is more of an illusion than
anything, but i should imagine scientists would find that rather odd?
All the best,
Squonk.
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