“I sleep, but my heart is awake,”

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The results were staggering. For one month, beginning at dusk and ending at dawn, Wehr’s subjects were removed from every possible form of artificial lighting—even the gentle glow of a luminescent clock. During the first three weeks, they slept as usual, only for about an hour longer. (After all, he reasoned, like most Americans, they were probably sleep deprived.) But at week four a dramatic change occurred. The participants slept the same number of hours as before, but now their sleep was divided in two. They began each night with approximately four hours of deep sleep, woke for two hours of what Wehr termed “quiet rest,” and then slept for another four. During the gap between their first and second sleep, Wehr’s subjects were neither awake nor fully asleep. Rather, they experienced a condition they had never known before—a state of consciousness all its own. Later Wehr would compare it to what advanced practitioners experience at the deepest levels of meditation. But there weren’t any such practitioners in his study. They were simply ordinary people who, removed for one month from artificial lighting, found their nights broken in half—or maybe broken open. Because there was something hidden inside.
Strand, Clark. Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna's Gospel for An Age of Extinction and Collapse