We say, we "fall asleep." We imagine a vertiginous scene, leaning over a precipice. Just a moment's loss of attention, and over we go. We see this as a kind of death. A conflation of self-consciousness with life? There is an expectation that attention and reflexive self-awareness are identical, or at least that we cannot attend un-selfconsciously.
Falling Awake
Falling Awake
Falling Awake
We say, we "fall asleep." We imagine a vertiginous scene, leaning over a precipice. Just a moment's loss of attention, and over we go. We see this as a kind of death. A conflation of self-consciousness with life? There is an expectation that attention and reflexive self-awareness are identical, or at least that we cannot attend un-selfconsciously.
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