Sleep feels like surrender, but it isn’t. It’s a quiet war you never agreed to fight. While you lie still, your heart, lungs, and hidden fears move into formation. Gravity loosens, temperature rises, memories return. You think it’s “just rest,” but your body is scanning, adjusting, protecting. Every 3 a.m. wake-up, every restless toss, is a coded message you keep ign…

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