The paradoxes of sleep: Why we battle to sleep, and how we could change

Daily Maverick | 31.08.2026 14:00
Anyone who has tried sleeping, which I hope is most of you, will know what a perfectly unusual (usual) experience it is. After a long day of work, emails and stress, we adopt the gentle repose of a corpse and wait for the ability to do it all again to wash over us. And then, as if by magic, we wake up with just this capacity.