{"id":53317,"date":"2024-02-08T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=53317"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:01:17","slug":"sleeping-the-golden-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/sleeping-the-golden-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping\u2014the Golden Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"In dreamless sleep, we give up our self-consciousness and our ability to remember. What we achieve while asleep is a riddle and a miracle.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI don't know what you were doing before you started reading this text, but now that you are reading it, I can safely assume that you are awake. You woke up a while ago. Before that, when you were asleep, you weren't for a while\u2014you were not conscious. Or rather, you were a gap in your consciousness.\n\n\n\nThe Other Today\n\n\n\nBy \"today\", I refer to the time span between waking up and going to sleep. During a night spent awake or after an excessively deep nap, the connection to the calendar day can easily be shaken. \"Today\" is my uninterrupted being awake, and staying awake is my victory over the threat of sleep\u2014the victory of self-consciousness, o<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In dreamless sleep, we give up our self-consciousness and our ability to remember. What we achieve while asleep is a riddle and a miracle. I don&#8217;t know what you were doing before you started reading this text, but now that you are reading it, I can safely assume that you are awake. You woke up a while ago. Before that, when you were asleep, you weren&#8217;t for a while\u2014you were not conscious. Or rather, you were a gap in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9165,"featured_media":52793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8793,11471],"tags":[8798,11486,11412],"class_list":["post-53317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-philosophy","category-sleeping-dreaming-waking","tag-deepening","tag-en2024-6","tag-2024-1-2-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}