Dreams and photographs.
Mean Mama
Overheard in Portland
There is a close link between insomnia and despair. The loss of hope comes with the loss of sleep. The difference between paradise and hell: you can always sleep in paradise, never in hell.
— E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair, trans. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston (via proustitute)
Source: proustitute
~ American Family Physician; Detailing Important Means of preserving Health, from Infancy to old age, by Thomas Ewell, M.D., 1826
via U.S. National Library of Medicine
“It is a good precaution for those subject to the disease, to sleep with someone to rouse them, on feeling their convulsive motions; for really they not unfrequently end in death.”
Source: questionableadvice
Those who suffer from hypersomnia have recurring episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), which is different from feeling tired due to lack of or interrupted sleep at night. They are compelled to nap repeatedly during the day, often at inappropriate times such as at work, during a meal, or in conversation. These daytime naps usually provide no relief from symptoms.
Every dream’s a good dream,
Even awful dreams are good dreams,
If you’re doing it right.
— The Mountain Goats, from “Harlem Roulette”
Print by Lisa Congdon.
I’ve got into the habit of imagining you; I’m always thinking what you’d say or do; I walk along the street talking to you; I dream of you.
— Virginia Woolf, from Night and Day
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
Source: violentwavesofemotion
Sleep is what I’ll miss most when I die.
Thin are the night-skirts left behind
By daybreak hours that onward creep,
And thin, alas! the shred of sleep
That wavers with the spirit’s wind:
But in half-dreams that shift and roll
And still remember and forget,
My soul this hour has drawn your soul
A little nearer yet.
Our lives,…
Source: sharingpoetry
I read a book about traveling before I went to sleep, and all I did in my dreams was stick around.
Source: ladykategazaway
