Even when the body drifts off to sleep, the mind stays up. Processing emotions, cataloging experiences, committing some to memory, discarding others, dreaming.
We’re hardwired to dream. It not only comes naturally; our mental health depends on it. That’s why medical experts regard sleep deprivation as a form of torture. Humans cannot do without that down time. We have to sleep, we need to dream.
Whether asleep or awake, dreaming is as essential as breathing. Awakened imagination does for civil society what sleep does for body and mind. Refresh. Rejuvenate. Making dreams a grave threat to those trying to keep us in our place.
I wrote last week about the immigrant bashing and race baiting and culture warfare we’re seeing nowadays, all boiling down to the ruling class pitting working class people against each other to bring them to heel.
They don’t just divide to conquer, they distract for the same purpose. Sometimes the distractions seem silly. Taking over Greenland, making Canada the 51st …
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