While Watching Whales Sleep

I love watching whales sleep…it is one of nature’s wonderful adaptations… how they’re able to sleep while floating in the water…in a kind of suspended animation. I love how we are alike in many ways to our colossal companions of the deep… but in particular…in the peaceful way our two species sleep. Sleep is where our dreams come to life…where like a movie before us they stream… I wonder while suspended in sleep…of what do whales dream? Would we be surprised to discover…their dreams are similar to ours… that they dream of a peaceful ocean…or what it’s like to touch the stars. That they dream of floating carefree with a food supply that never ends that they dream of moments from their past spent with family and friends… When observing our two species…we don’t have to look very far to see how truly similar we humans and whales are. We are born, we eat, we breathe… we love, we die… we weep. all things we realize we share… while watching whales sleep.