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∞ There is more at play here than meets the eye.

Sleep is the ostensible ‘sudden death’ of the left hemisphere’s waking pattern of dominance in the brain. This is related to the ‘falling sensation’ one may feel when consciousness briefly intrudes upon the crossover event.

The child clings manically to consciousness, in part for this reason… the left-hemisphere dominant activity framework ‘wants to survive forever’ and, in many cases, may be actively resisting sleep, which it ‘neither likes nor understands’.

Such songs are actually invoking the death of the left hemisphere-dominant paradigm… they are ‘lulling it to death’… and the aspects of peculiar character mentioned in the essay here linked all make obvious sense in this view: even in dreaming, the ‘crossover’ »to waking is often associated with accident or death.

Moreover, the left-hemispheric aspect of mind ‘views itself as utterly alone’ in its most extreme or stimulated states, thus the ‘always absent’ caretaker.

In case it isn’t obvious… The Always Absent Caretaker is the source of the urgent »conscious feelings toward … ‘God’. It is a result of our brain structure becoming overly LHD. The caretaker is ‘always present’…. when LHD subsides… or, more accurately, this compelling concern naturally subsides because it is a result of the LHD pattern of estrangement from person, place, nature and intimacy.