For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I’m now told that this is not called “going to sleep” but rather “passing out, ” a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment. . David Sedaris
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We all go to sleep at night. We can either be awake or asleep. When you are in the process of falling asleep, it is called passing out. During this time, you are unconscious and unresponsive.

The act of waking up is often accompanied by a dream. If you are aware of the dream when you wake up then you are in a state of lucid dreaming. Laying down in your bed to fall asleep is not the same as actually sleeping.

Going to sleep is the act of falling asleep, while sleeping is the act of staying asleep without moving.

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

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