Giving my little ones naps all the time I spend quite a bit of time thinking about sleep. I was thinking how sleep is really a common denominator, how whether you’re in the US or in Venezuela or China or Darfur, everyone has to sleep. To me this puts everyone in the world in a common space almost daily. Obviously not everyone sleeps at the same time, but if everyone sleeps 8 hours a day, then at any given time, a third of the world is asleep!
It would be really nice if we could use this space to connect with each other. I know the logical answer to this, that sleep already serves its purpose by giving our individual psyches and bodies time to heal and work out issues, but it seems there should also be something bigger going on… something to remind us of our many common denominators like the desire for freedom, family time, food, clothing, shelter.