Grok said:

Well I guess this is an opportune topic for me to fly off the handle.

I share your sentiment of being asleep. I have been fully awake before and by that standard I'd say we're all just a bunch of sleepwalkers. Admittingly I spend my life sleepwalking but I know I do it.

We get out of bed in the morning and consider ourselves ripe awake. But that's just part of the game, to make us think we're fully present in Now. When you sleep you dream and this is the dream. A metaphor. There is another side of it. One would not hardly want to blink much less sleep if they were truly awake and there.

Consider this nonsense and proceed with your wakeful life.

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