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HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE AWAKE?
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE AWAKE?
What keeps you awake?
Unfortunately, or luckily we do not have a cure for insomnia. The more desperately we reach for sleep, the harder it seems to achieve. Perhaps the reason it is so difficult to possess or buy is that sleep is disrupted by the very same systems that are trying to sell it to us.
SLSF sleep software is fiction, but inspired by reality. In these times, work is being done to develop 'the sleepless soldier' and military technology has a way of creeping into all other parts of society. Let's hope this never becomes a reality.
To rest, to be unproductive, to get in touch with our deeper essence is threatened by an increasingly enlightened and busy world, As Sara Arrhenius says in the book Insomnia:
There are few dark places left to dream.
Sleep is individual, some struggle to sleep almost every night, others always sleep well and most are somewhere in between. No matter if you are one or the other we will encourage you to cherish your rest, whether it is shallow, light, deep or mostly consists in staring at the ceiling.
As Trisha Hersey says: Rest is Resistance
FURTHER READING
REST IS RESISTANCE: Free yourself from grind culture and reclaim your life
by Tricia Hersey
Dormancy: Notes on Sleep, Criticality, and the Poetics of Suspension in and around Henriette Heise’s Darkness Machines
by Mathias Danbolt
Insomnia: Sleeplessness as a Cultural Symptom
texts by Sara Arrhenius, Ellen Blumenstein, Rosi Braidotti, Jonathan Crary, Roger Ekirch, Leif Elggren, Rafael Fazendaal, Martin Herbert, Siri Hustvedt, Camilla Larsson, Marti Manen, Filipa Ramos, Raqs media collective, Karen Russel
ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING: Cure through Sleep, Touch and Travel
texts by Valentina Karga, Antigone Samellas, David Bergé, Milica Ivić