Manifest - Call for Works About Sleep, Rest, and Dreaming

We need to rest. There is no way to avoid the simple fact that despite our desire or need to be awake and working, eventually the need to lie down will overcome us against our will if ignored long enough. When we do sleep, we are better for that rest.

There are times in our life where our connection to sleep is acrimonious. We fight it off with caffeine, light, or music until we are shaking and delirious. Toddlers unwilling to nap and miss out of life do this, as do workers staying awake for a shift. Other times we court it desperately, trying to meet it within fleeting windows between work and childcare, swallowing medicines, meditation, and chamomile while playing white noise at a low thrum.

When we sleep we get to dream, our brain pulling apart and rearranging the desires and events of our lives into surreal and…