Sleep is Painless?
I was following up on a reference I came across to Plutarch, a part of which reads, "therefore death is sometimes accompanied by pains, sleep always by pleasure."
Is it a common belief that sleep is free of pain? It is not my experience: some of the worst pain I have experienced has been in dreams; for example, of being shot by a firearm.
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The Neoplatonic perspective, at least, is that the thing experiencing dreams is the "pneumatic vehicle" (what occultists call the astral body), which is not the soul itself but still a body of sorts (even if it's different from the physical body), and thus has sensory capacity. This, at least, fits my experiences!
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