The really strange thing about being awake isn't being awake; it's the people that aren't.
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Have you ever been around a sleepwalker who had their eyes open and was performing a task, even speaking? It's pretty eerie. Now imagine the whole word is like that. It's eerie and it's lonely, but more than that, it's dubious. It lacks credibility. It's not believable. Even at the level of consensual reality, it's hard to accept that these people are all really asleep.
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They might say they want to wake up, but it quickly becomes apparent they have some dreamworld notion of what awake means that might involve anything so long as it doesn't disturb their slumber. Ego's guard dog is ever-vigilant, and it bites. They say that sleepwalkers get violent if you try to wake them; a curiosly apt parallel.
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Excerpted from pages 9 and 10.
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