the bliss of un-interrupted sleep

Caught up with news and episodes of Devils Advocate show which I admire a lot, as many as 10 episodes. Indian General Elections hovering over Indian media sites, Srilankan violence, British Budget lots of things happening all around. Weekend means delightful recipes with knowledgeable and skilful friends. Feel I’ve eaten much after every meal, so much so, that if we don’t say we’ve had too much today – that’s an exception. Video chatting at home is a routine weekend activity as well. It feels so soothingly different when you can see them, thanks to Technology.

I distinctly remember a conversation with my brother just after the Mumbai floods of 2005. Back in those days, he was just placed after his MBA with one of the ‘big’ Indian banks with lot of I’s in its name. He was stuck with a few of his friends in one of their cash deposit safe sites. All of them had to skip a meal as there was no rail/road connectivity during that time from the building. Although they slept on currency notes worth millions, but that couldn’t guarantee a good sleep. None of them could sleep because of hunger. How basic needs over-ride everything else even for sane people, forget the insane ones. If the biological needs are satisfied, one can sleep easily, happily.

What a relaxing feeling if you get up when you want to get up, without any un-expected interruptions, without any phone calls of friends wanting to “just catch up”. I used to get very irritated if I had to be interrupted in sleep. Often had arguments with friends during hostel & college days, even after that! Some of it has evaporated since a near distant past. Don’t know just ageing I guess. We had lot of funny discussions regarding sleep walking over lunch one of these days at work. Interesting reads and links to sleeping habits here. Sleep, they say spiritually - is a state of meditation. Funny snoring patterns define the state of the mind as well. Different stages of sleep have different functions biologically. Its I think the last stage of sleep where the events of the day which impacted us are written down to the permanent memory. That’s why we remember photo like flashes when we think of events or dates in the past.

I’m sure all of us have had our laughs when a neighbour in the bus/train is fast asleep and almosts falls down. I’m sure I’ve been at the “being watched” end a lot of times as well. Babies look so cute while they are sleep, some grown ups too. Definitely not all, some are just plain and simple - scary. Discovery & NGC I’m sure have given us enough funny moments of animals sleeping or dozing or surprized. The particular that comes to my mind is the mommy panda chewing half asleep ruffled by its baby’s sneeze. have a look.. Whether we accept it or no - nature is preparing all living beings for their final rest – as often as everyday – irrespective of being human or otherwise. We can realize this only if we awaken from routine life's

Slumber