Some scientists posit that it's a way to "exercise your brain" by keeping it stimulated as you sleep; others claim that allows the brain to fully absorb thoughts and memories from the day.
Now, though, this production by the Epic Theater Ensemble has to settle for the second tier of adjectives — "absorbing," "thought-provoking" — because the territory has been pretty thoroughly worked over in plays, documentaries, books and articles of all sorts.
In Mexico Miriam is quietly absorbed in thoughts of dust and violence as they wander through a church in Mexico.
By following her opponents' feeds, she absorbed their thoughts on the world, learned what food they ate, and saw photographs of their babies.
Liverpool has embraced Petrenko as one of its own, but he's never better than when absorbed with thoughts of home.
But then, having absorbed the thoughts of a couple of people who have worked closely with Rice during his development from hopeful junior to the England squad, such fortitude should not come as a surprise.
I was sitting in a diner, enjoying my solitude and absorbed in thoughts of my father.
Einstein had these childhood characteristics of late talking, social isolation, being often "in his head" and absorbed by thoughts.
Here's one interesting nugget of advice: "To earth the throbbing magnetism it's wise to retire alone early to bed with a chaste milky drink and drift off to sleep absorbed with thoughts of death, electoral defeat and the corruption of the flesh".
He absorbed classical thought, but was not enslaved to it.
They seemed absorbed in thought about what they had just experienced.
