dreamlessness

The infant lay sleeping, his mind cycling in bright dreamlessness.

He half-woke, then, sighed, and subsided into dreamlessness, the book slipping from his fingers to the floor.

It had all seemed dreamlike and, waking from dreamlessness, he had wondered momentarily which was the dream, this or the prison.

From fever dream, he moved into welcome dreamlessness, and from then into the pain that always woke him when his medicines wore off.

Sweet dreamlessness."

Cramps and glare woke him up sweaty and itchy; his foot hit the horn and black dreamlessness became sound waves bouncing off four bloody walls.

Only for this last time must you know the pain of mortality--for when you next awaken it will not be from mortal sleep, but the sweet dreamlessness of death.

The refusal to collude in the state of dreamlessness that is adulthood, even to the Pyrrhic point of clinging stubbornly to the state of being unsatisfied, forever.

Anyone who's ever treasured their pain, tried to prolong it, toyed with exacerbating it or been driven to dwell on inside it long after recovery was an option, preferring the company of ghosts to the dreamlessness of everyday sociability - that person understands poignancy.