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I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
 How happy he whose toil
 Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd
  A pleasing lassitude; he not read more 
 How happy he whose toil
 Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd
  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain
   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.
    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve
     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews
      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. 
 Sleep is a death, O make me try,
 By sleeping, what it is to die:
  And as read more 
 Sleep is a death, O make me try,
 By sleeping, what it is to die:
  And as gently lay my head
   On my grave, as now my bed. 
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful read more
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
 Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! 
it covers a man all over, thoughts and read more 
 Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! 
it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is 
meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, 
and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all 
the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the 
king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is 
only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I 
dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very 
little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in 
his last sleep. 
 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: read more 
 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 
 Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep!
 And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,
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 Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep!
 And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,
  From my vain self, and vain things which have power
   Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.
    And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep. 
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a read more
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.