The day's second twilight, Night, that sinks into sleep.
The New Yorker, August 9 , 1969P. 34 The day's second twilight, Night, that sinks into sleep.
In the Elegies ideal and real are poised in a perfect conjunction.... when she sinks into sleep, wakeful and thoughtful I lie.
And even harder to sink into sleep and often impossible to read because depression can strike one almost dyslexic.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan, not far from the fishing village of Mevagissey, once sank into an enchanted sleep for almost 70 years.
He stopped eating and then sank into a delirious, heavily medicated sleep.
I put a pillow over my head, and, sinking back into sleep, I imagined this same rooster, its internal G.P.S. activated the second I set foot on Anguilla, ruthlessly tracking me down as it had on all my previous visits.
How I looked forward to the electronic facsimile of a friendly goodnight chat with a smiling, sardonic friend, and a reason (however delusional) to pretend I was not alone and that it was O.K. to be self-involved as I sunk unwillingly into sleep.
The initial stage features the sinking into sleep as electrical brain activity, eye and jaw-muscle movement and respiration slow.
If engaging you while you talk in your sleep soothes you, you'll likely sink into a deeper sleep and the talking should stop.
