Henry Reed Quotes

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, 'What does my brain actually have to do to make me become asleep? What is the difference between that state and this? Why is the weird, invisible change not happening tonight?'

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.

There are many dreams which I never wanna wake up from. Actually, I don't like waking up, full stop. So no matter what the dream is, I just don't wanna wake up and get out of bed.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

To sleep perchance to dream

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.