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Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

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“You’re going to spend one-third of your life sleeping. Think about that for a moment. How you spend that third will have a significant impact on the health, happiness, and success of the other two-thirds of your precious life, so before we begin, I want to ask you a question: What life could you be living if you weren’t tired all the time?”

“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.”