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the rehearsal for death your body throws nightly, then forgets by morning.
means To sleep, especially in a light, peaceful, or drowsy way.
from From Middle English slumeren, an extension of older slumen 'to doze,' rooted in Old English sluma 'light sleep.' It belongs to a sleepy Germanic family — a cousin of Dutch sluimeren and German schlummern — and the intrusive 'b' crept in over time, the same way 'thunor' became 'thunder,' the tongue slipping a consonant into the gap between sounds.
- paralysis
- Your body paralyzes itself nightly so you don't act out dreams.
- brain wash
- Sleep flushes brain toxins through cerebrospinal fluid drainage.
- two halves
- Dolphins sleep one brain hemisphere at a time.
- giraffe deal
- Giraffes survive on roughly thirty minutes nightly.
- deprivation
- Staying awake eleven days is the record, brutally.
for instance
rip van winkle — irving's 1819 character who slept for 20 years in the catskill mountains
sleeping beauty — fairy tale figure who slept for 100 years after pricking her finger on a spindle