Involution
There’s a quote in an article I just read from someone called Hal Elrod which reads:
“The first key to waking up is to remember this: Your first thought in the morning is usually the last thought you had before you went to bed.”
And I just want to record my utter bogglement at this, which feels to me like saying the sky is green. My first thoughts in the morning are random, connected with dreams, incoherent, and after those, frequently about coffee. They are almost never what I went to sleep thinking about, if indeed I was thinking about anything going to sleep.