What Is Sleep?

Sportscasters described Ray Allen as being unconscious while on his way to hitting a record number of threes as the Celtics beat the Lakers in game two in L.A..

But was Ray really "unconscious" - or was he merely hyperconscious without being aware of it.

While movies tend to exaggerate natural occurrences - maybe The Matrix had it about right.

Maybe we can operate at levels beyond that of our day to day activities.

Blood lust, being 'In the zone', and/or being focused are just examples of where we would operate if we were to reach our full potential.

Many are said to have had epiphanic visions or to have had dreams which reveal previously unknown information.

But what if we did already know that which we were seeking but we were just not able to grasp it?

Maybe we just needed the information to be in the context which we could understand.

Maybe we were just looking for the perfect metaphor or analogy.

Maybe our sleep (like real prayer, fasting, suffering, or stress) frees us from all superfluous external matter to enable our whole brain to communicate with the area that is required to solve certain problems.
Maybe our sleeping state is when we are wholly conscious and our waking hours are when we are only focused on our earthy needs and desires.