30.3

HUM IN MY HEAD ... 
When my head is quiet, mind working quietly I like to think. 
My brain runs on automatic and seldom stops except when I am asleep. 
Perhaps that's why I never dream or at least I never recall having them. 
I think my brain is so exhausted when I fall asleep that it falls asleep too.  
I wonder do I have REM at night and the deepest alpha rhythms 
or do I just die without dying in my sleep? ...                         

SLEEPING
I sleep well in solitude. 
liking to be cool but not cold. 
liking to be warm but not hot. 
liking to be cool when I'm warm 
and being warm when I'm cool. 

WAKING
When I'm awake my favourite sounds 
are especially the sounds of silence 
Try listening to silence while awake. 
You may hear a bird chirp or a bee hum
or the drone of a motorway, 
or a distant car or a plane eight miles up. 

LISTENING
Silence has its own sound.  
There is no such thing as silent silence 
and the more silent it becomes 
the more you hear when you listen
But in noise you can't hear anything but noise 
not even the wasted sound of a nightingale. 

This leads on to the prose essay "NIGHTINGALE"