Am I sleeping or am I awake?
[Not a story | just a realization] Sleeping or waking up. Now I somehow know the difference so that I can be more conscious of it in future. Sleeping is just not sleeping in literal sense. It also includes other activities when we do not acknowledge the reality around us and thus fail to live in the present, in other words, we sleep.
Sleeping is day dreaming and wishful thinking.
Sleeping is burying ourselves in the past.
Sleeping is indulging in fantasy like watching a movie or reading a novel.
Sleeping is worrying about something over which we do not have control.
Sleeping is seeking something and not knowing exactly what like the existential questions.
Sleeping is trying to figure out everything despite not having information.
Sleeping is thinking.
While sleeping consists of all the above, waking up is just using the five senses and accepting and seeing reality as it is right now, in the moment.
