Before we sleep, we must perform a ritual to close the day, to conclude and thus condense our day into a whole.
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We cede to an imposed narrative structure: tiers of boxes on a calendar, full rotations, weekdays and weekends, quantization technologies commodifying our brief span of existence.
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What is this sleep ritual? It must inherit from the ancient ways, the sunrise and the sunset, the introduction and conclusion. Our sleep rituals need beauty and drama as they slowly transition toward silence.
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From sunrise and sunset comes a narrative we intuitively understand as a whole: The Day. The arc of a Day: a slow, dramatic opening, a daytime with rising and falling action (perhaps a midday dip, an intermission?), culminating in a slow, dramatic close.
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Given nature as our wellspring of metaphor and wholeness, what other whole narratives might we intuitively understand?
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Perhaps we can grasp the seasons as a cyclical narrative, a rising and a falling with transitional periods of beauty. Or the narrative of life, a convex pattern of growth and learning followed by slow terminal decline.
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Perhaps other intuitive narratives are rooted in physiology. The rising tension and rapid resolution of sex or danger, the poking distraction of hunger, the constant yet volatile anxiety of uncertainty and risk, the lateral synthesis and insight flash of problem-solving.
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We can also work backwards: what narrative does a work follow, and what does it feel like? For example, The Drop reminds me of a fight-or-flight transition: the moment when nervous, waiting tension bursts into action.
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The Drop contrasts with the Classical Conclusion: a similar rising in tension occurs, but instead of bursting into action, it collapses into peace. A very sexual (perhaps uniquely male?) narrative indeed.
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