Sleeping is a wonderful thing.

Subject: Sleeping is a wonderful thing.

The thing about being asleep is that you are not awake. The thing about being awake is that you are aware that being awake means there is a responsibility attached to it.
So there you have it, sleep allows you to shuffle off the chains of being responsible, the on going intrusion into your thoughts and actions by others who having thoughts themselves and wish you to be collegiate and share yourself with their concerns.
Individuals sell or barter their individuality on a daily basis by amending their interests or indeed, their lack of them, by showing awareness  where naturally none would occur.
Holidays, like trips to the shops are booby traps waiting to happen. The course of events are often a compromise with no one truly happy since there is often a half hearted attempt to justify why you are doing what you do, whilst secretly wondering what is happening in the place you would rather be.
Sleep relieves us of all this. Sleep dumbs our senses and makes us children again with only the occasional nightmare to unsettle us. As perhaps we wrestle in our dreams with old demons (I never remember my dreams) at least we are secure in the thought that when we awake we will not be left with the bill for our actions whilst dreaming.
"To sleep perchance to dream but there's the rub for who knows what" ---wait a minute Hamlet old boy, that mortal dread you talk about is in your imagination, the real dread is the reality we face in our real lives which thankfully sleep relieves us of at least 6 to 8 hours per day. So let's not knock sleeping, of lying in bed, oblivious of what going on around us. Let's celebrate sleep, let's welcome those moments as we drift out of reality into a dream world where we become what ever our waking imagination and the connection the chemical synapses's had been working on just before sleep closed down the action for the night. The state of sleep and the state of being awake are bedfellows (pardon the pun), that yin and yang of our personality, the totality of who we are.
"To sleep perchance to dream" is a continuum of who we are. It's just that the dream world is passive in contrast to the hours we are awake, both full of both good and bad but at least in our dreams we can do no harm.