As much as I have always feared death, I would hate to be asleep and miss it. I want my last thought to be: Here we go…!

I’m thinking, with the possible exception of dreaming, the Self basically ceases to exist while the body sleeps, doesn’t it?

Okay, maybe you can tolerate this “nightly death” because you are confident you will be “resurrected” the next morning. But that depends on all sorts of factors completely outside your control – and of course, many (most?) people actually do die while asleep.

So if slipping into the risky “little death” of sleep every single day is not so terrifying, why is the “big sleep” so much more? I suspect that for most people the experience is more or less the same. That final closing of eyelids is not usually accompanied with the consciousness that it is the last.

Now, my biggest fear is that merely suggesting this gives you chronic sleeplessness. :-0

Substantive response later; for now: Yay!