Rested

9:07 PM

Have you seen the movie Jumper? It's about people who have the ability to jump from one place to another. Like apparating in Harry Potter. When I lack sleep, that's how I feel. I sometimes come to my senses and wonder how I got to Location B when my last memory was I was in Location A. Thankful that it's not one of those days today. My mind finally succumbed to sleep and today I feel rested. Ahhh, power naps. Short but effectual.

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Another realization in this c oronavirus lockdown life: sleep is vacation in itself.

I still look forward to having a real vacation once the dust settles. But really, sleep is a good escape from this daily hullabaloo.

I'm amazed by how our mind works. Especially how we dream.

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own.

Let them swim in the deepest ocean, or glide over the highest cloud.

-Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)

My dreams are weird. Even I myself wake up and wonder why it's like so sometimes.

I've dreamed about:

talking with people I know already passed away
being dead myself and feeling free because I could fly
flying and not being dead 😂
surfing in the middle of the ocean (that was more of a nightmare)
war
celebrities
high school

It depends on what I last saw or read before going to bed. But most of the time, they're random.

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I've not been thinking about a dead person for example and then I would see him/her in my dreams. Not being scary but just there talking casually.

Sometimes in my dreams I know they're dead, sometimes I'd only remember when I wake up.

Some sleep leaves me more tired than rested.

I'm a workaholic and my mind has a hard time shutting down especially after a long day.

Sleep is one of the things I took for granted when I was a kid. I used to dread it when my parents tell me to take an afternoon nap. All I wanted to do was play. Or watch TV.

When I went to college and started working, that's when I realized the value of sleep.

Kids, if you're reading this, sleep!

Get all the rest you need.

Don't believe the people who say you can sleep when you're dead.

Without sleep, you'll be like a zombie. Not dead but also not truly alive. What a waste of life.

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Sleep is important to stay sane, healthy and to live a good life.

You can't enjoy life when you lack rest. As I've mentioned before, based on my personal experience of forgoing sleep, I felt like a jumper.

In this time of crisis, rest is necessary and beneficial both for our mental and physical health.

Even during this p andemic, we can rest easy because:

He will not let your foot be moved;

He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, He who keeps Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

-Psalm 121:3-4

Gosh, I hope I can remember those words every time worries start to creep in.

Your turn

What's your weirdest dream?

Lux G.

Lux is a social entrepreneur, and investor with a passion for romance novels and an uncanny knack for turning words into marketing magic at Internet Marketing Ad. She believes all things are possible through Christ.