“Youth is wasted on the young,” they say. So is sleep, which the young seem to need more of than we who are older. I get by with about six hours most nights, and catnap when more sleep is needed.
There’s just so much to do and so little time in which to do it. “Occupy till I come,” Jesus said. He didn’t say “preoccupy” “Occupy” is better translated, “Do business”. which in the Middle East involves haggling over the price of an item on sale in a market. where the seller asks for more and the buyer wants to pay less. The price agreed on usually meets somewhere in between. The NT Greek word has entered the English dictionary in the word “pragmatic”.
Many complexities of life are worked out in dreams because the subconscious mind never sleeps. You just need to know how to interpret them.
Did you know that your eyeballs roll around in your dreams the same as they do when you are awake? You see everything in your dreams. But avoid eating pickles with ice cream before going to bed, or your dreams will be enigmatic even to dream interpretation boffins.
If you wake up with something really spiritual on your mind, it’s probably the tail end of a significant dream, and your totally uncaring conscious mind will soon after blot it out with routine realities like, “Is there any milk left in the fridge?”
I used to think my most spiritual moment came when I was waking up! The conscious mind cannot access the unconscious mind. But you can say, “It will come back to me in a moment,” and it will if you think and talk about something totally unrelated. (I set up an imaginary discussion as to the differences between tulips and turnips, which keeps my conscious mind busy and allows my subconscious mind to fetch me what I’ve forgotten.) Pretty soon, your mind will say, “You’ve got mail!” as it recalls the information.
The conscious and unconscious minds are complementary. Think of the latter as a “cloud” in which all the things you do without thinking are stored and used. When you think more intuitively, you will think more spiritually (Matthew 10:19, 20). Renewing the mind does nor involve brain surgery.