Awake...Perhaps to Dream

As I was being awakened from a deep sleep early this morning, there was a new understanding, a realization I hadn't known before.

It is this; that there is an exquisite moment when one transitions from sleep to wakefulness that is more like moving from life to death than any other thing we experience.

A sudden awareness of life unknown during the previous hours. A realization of new sounds heard. A slow testing of the bodies extremities, new systems coming online. Heightened awareness of your surroundings.

It's like, "Oh, this is what it was all about."

...There would be a clarity of vision unknown before. You would see clearly, and know truthfully like you've never seen and known ever before.

[via Randall Friesen]