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All human states are organic brain states – happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels – and our brains are not static.

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Siri Hustvedt

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It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

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It’s not as if I’ve been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven’t lived through terrible literary suffering!

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June 5, 2024

It’s not as if I’ve been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven’t lived through terrible literary suffering!

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June 5, 2024

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

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All human states are organic brain states – happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels – and our brains are not static.

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