You Always Do More Awake and Aware than Asleep

Sleepers aren’t necessarily dreamers and are never doers.

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I know people who have lucid, involved, detailed dreams. They tell me about crazy happenings they experience when they sleep.

I rarely remember my dreams. Once in a very great while, something lingers from my sleep, but more often than not, dreams elude me.

Over the past decade-plus, this idea has come into the collective consciousness where being “woke” is somehow a bad thing. What does that even mean? People use the term “woke” like it’s an evil, despicable notion. It’s as if the opposite of “woke”, asleep, is somehow better.

I get way more done when I’m awake than asleep. As far as I know, everyone gets more done awake than asleep. Further, when you’re awake, you’re capable of doing, being, and having things. Asleep, all you do is dream. Or sleep dreamlessly and recharge to a greater or lesser degree.

The truth of the collective conscious idea of reality is that you always do more awake and aware than asleep.

The literal and the figurative

When you’re literally awake, you engage your senses. Sometimes this is active, but for the most part, it’s passive. Reading this, you’re engaging your eyes…