Is sleep REALLY the cousin of death?

Question

explain elaborate..

Answer 1

That's an interesting question, really. I often think of sleep as being a temporary "death" myself. You're not aware of anything; your senses are more in tune with the subconscious than what might be happening around you while sleeping. You could die while sleeping.They say the dead (those who "channel" them/seance) have precognition of the future; sometimes I dream of things that will happen (have happened!) and of dead relatives. Sleeping or dreams give some the ability to see into the future...like the dead. So, not to drag on, sleeping is a "cousin" or gateway to death...there is a thin line, a very THIN line between sleep and death. Between life and death, there is sleep....

Answer 2

Sleep Is Death

Answer 3

Sleep is the cousin of death. Not literally but theologically. When Nas popularized the phrase in his song New York State of Mind he was not referring to it literally, he was referring to the Greek Mythology in which the god of sleep is literally the cousin of the god of death. When a Greek Hero was shown sleeping in a Greek Myth it typically foreshadowed their death. Nas sees himself as the rap hero from Queensbridge, so you will never catch him sleeping because he knows that it means death is around the corner. Some people relate to it from the angle of depression. Depressed people often prefer to be asleep than to be awake, which is a sign of suicidal tendencies in extreme cases

Answer 4

I have a theory.

When we sleep, not only are our eyes closed, but we lose consciousness. During this time, our still living bodies are moving along with everything else in the universe, and therefore our physical beings still have a frame of reference relative to everything else, but our conscious minds have no frame of reference at all. (This is why, I believe, we have no recollection of the passing of time during sleep. It is as though hours have passed within only moments by the time we awake again. We have literally lost track of time).

However, upon waking, our conscious minds have a frame of reference once again, and when we see the time, our consciousness "catches up" with our physical body. Our internal clock sees to it that this balance be kept.

The subconscious mind, however, stays active even during sleep, and there is evidence to suggest that it can even stay active for a short period of time even after death.

However, upon death, our physical bodies cease to function. Now, with both conscious mind AND physical being having no frame of reference to keep us tethered to time as it exists on Earth, those final few moments of subconscious thoughts and dreams may very well seem to us that they last, well, for an eternity.

But this is just a theory.

Answer 5

Nah... I'm way too conscious during sleep to think of it as anything like death. My dreams are very vivid and often I know I'm dreaming. Then again, I may be proven wrong when I die if I find that death is like sleep. No way to really know what death is like, is there? So I guess they can't really be compared.

Answer 6

Sleep is not related to death in any way. The subconscious mind is still part of the physical mind, so dreaming is nothing more than a different level of physical consciousness. Sleep, for all animals, is needed to regenerate cells. Psychologically some people may see them as being related only because of the unconscious state, but being dead does not mean you are unconscious.

Answer 7

i know what you mean...i have heard that saying before...but i think that the body regenerates during sleep and decomposes during death....so if they are cousins then they are 4th removed and very distant!

Answer 8

When you die your soul leaves your body. When you sleep your soul leaves your body sometimes to explore to visit the other side.
Sleep is like death...BUT you come back after 8 hours...lol

Answer 9

I think i understand what you mean. When we go to sleep our physical body goes to sleep and our spirit travels to heaven. The difference is we are still attached to the physical and wake up. Where as when we die we leave our physical body forever. So going to sleep is similar to dying until we wake up.

Answer 10

I have heard that if you dream that your falling, and you don't wake up before you fall and hit the bottom, then you never wake up, you die. That I've heard of before, but nobody has ever came back and told me if it were true or not. LOL Seriously though, I have really heard this before, have you ever heard that? That's a really good and interesting question though. Have you ever been asleep, and saw someone that you knew was dead, almost like you were there with them again, even talking to them and they were talking back to you? I have had this happen and I don't totally understand that. It was so real. Your a smart person I can tell, what do you make of that? Honestly.