[ExtremeUnction]

That is why sleep is called the Little Death

My doctor once told me that the reason you sometimes wake up with a start just as you fall asleep is that the brain is reacting to what it senses as impending death. He said going to sleep and dying are not that far apart (as far as what your brain senses).

[The Red Zone]

My doctor once told me that the reason you sometimes wake up with a start just as you fall asleep is that the brain is reacting to what it senses as impending death. He said going to sleep and dying are not that far apart (as far as what your brain senses).

With the TEENSY LITTLE difference being the amount of oxygen the brain is getting... sounds like new age hog wash to me.