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Thinking | Oct 12 2001

When we sleep we know in some sense that we sleep, that we are sleeping. So when we wake in the night, we do not find it strange that we are sleeping, that we have woken, or half-woken, from sleep. We knew that we were sleeping. We know that we are asleep. Just like the bed. We know that the bed is there. We know we lie on the bed. Without thinking of it. And when we lie with another, we know that too, we know the other is there without thinking of it. There is a way of knowing that does not involve thinking.