Titlebook: Becoming Insomniac; How Sleeplessness Al Lee Scrivner Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 Insomni

Opponent

The Freeing of the Will, our modern, hyperconnected, sensory-saturated world, and in that time our dwelling spaces have only become . saturated with stimulations and information, . bustling with round-the-clock connectivity—and yet, as of this writing, planes are hardly falling from the sky en masse from sleep-deprived pilots.

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Prologomenon,and space are gleefully cast aside. Vodafone and Dell computers urge us to “Make the Most of Now” or “Get More out of Now,” respectively, as if the current moment were too confining. And not only is our “now” now somehow insufficient, but our immediate spatial locale, too, seems wanting. For, with a

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A Modern Insomnia,m’s dark, we prepare ourselves for sleep by mimicking it. We get into costume. We get into position. We lie supine and close our eyes. We mentally rehearse our lines with heartfelt sincerity: “And now to sleep!”

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The Freeing of the Will,ably provoke instances of insomnia, each like a kind of Ouroboros gnawing away at the system that birthed it—perhaps some consolation can be found in looking around us. For a century and a half has now passed since commentators first issued their admonitions about the irreconcilability of sleep with

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In Vicious Circles: The Physiologies of Exhaustion,laimed that insomnia is a problem of the attention, where the objects of our cognition get the upper hand, and even the most comforting or calming thought, under intense focus, loses all proportion. But identifying these mental faculties of volition and attention in insomnia’s pathogeneses still fai

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Psychologorrhea,logical experiments have verified the stubbornness of facts in the sense that when a piece of information thought to be a fact is revealed to be a falsity, people often continue clinging to it as if it were true, even knowing full well that the fact is not, in fact, factual.

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Prostheses and Antitheses,ies, durations, and distances that had in prior centuries limited human activity, communication, and commerce. Yet the effects of this broadening of fields of activity upon an opposing human tendency or necessity, upon inactivity and sleep, have gone largely overlooked. This might seem surprising, c