84. Sleep

In this entry, I envision novel imaginaries for the future with the help of sleep. Alternative imaginaries are needed in the face of severe Earthly crises caused by harmful, Western growth-oriented, capitalised life forms that are fuelled by the ideals of controlling, mastering and rationalising. Sleep allows for moving beyond these ideals as it is situated somewhere beyond control, mastering and certainty and is associated with vulnerability. Therefore, sleep opens up different relations to the self, the Earth and its various inhabitants, affording a distinct transformative vocabulary. This entry exemplifies how dreams may nurture alternative storytelling and the development of coping practices and how sleep attunes us to particular life-affirming rhythms and temporalities, such as the circle of life, deep time and stillness.