“Like travel, insomnia is an uprooting experience. You are torn out of sleep like a plant from its native soil, then shaken down so that any clinging vestige of slumber falls away, naked confusion exposed like nerve endings. Sleep, in its turn, is a matter of gravity. It pulls you down, beds you in the earth, burrows you in. In sleep you connect back to the bedrock that provides nourishment and restorative rest.” SleepInsomnia Book:Insomnia Source: Insomnia
“Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.” SleepMemoirInsomnia Book:Insomnia Source: Insomnia
“In insomnia we encounter the very heart of love’s darkness: the essential otherness of the beloved.” SleepMemoirInsomnia Book:Insomnia Source: Insomnia