Sleep is Painless?

[sdi]

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.

Comments

[k_a_nitz]

FWIW I've never had pain from sleep. I wouldn't say it is always accompanied by pleasure though.

[sdi]

Neither would I! Even if we take "pleasure" to simply mean a rest and respite, I often as not wake up just as exhausted as I was the night before!