I saw The Neverending Story when I was a schoolkid, something like 11 years old. It was mid-1980's, digital movies weren't yet invented so all the movies were distributed on physical reels. Since our small village didn't have a cinema, we kids seldom got to see films on a big screen. But once there was a group travelling with movie equipment, and they set up a temporary cinema in our village, for two days or so. It was there where I saw The Neverending Story, and sure, I did like it. Now, if I remember correctly, the story is by Michael Ende, who also wrote a story "Momo", which I read and liked.

Thanks for the music tips, I'll listen to them later on. Yup, I tend to listen to song lyrics, as they contribute a lot to the listening experience. But sometimes it is so refreshing to listen to songs in an unknown language; it is like diving into the non-verbal emotional content of the song.

And one more clarification about this thing with resting properly. For years my "normal state" has been that of "being nearly over-exhausted". And the ordinary night sleep is enough to recover back to the normal state... I remember when I was still working at the mill, one day I was running a process where I manually poured kernels into the mill, using a big bucket. I had to wait for two minutes for the mill to process a load of kernels, and then pour in a new load. Well, I poured in a load, and sat down leaning on the big bucket - and suddenly I woke up when my boss looked at me, asking "Is everything OK?". Yup, in the middle of the all the machine noise, just sitting still for 30 seconds, and I had fallen asleep... because that was my normal state; most of the time I had to struggle a bit to keep me going.

Sometimes that also happened with the massage work - when one customer had left, and I had fifteen minutes to rest before the next customer, I set alarm in my mobile phone, and took a nap of seven minutes - kind of a using every possibility to rest a little.

Now, if that is a "normal state", then how to shift that? It feels a bit like updating the operating system - small updates you can install on the go, but for bigger updates the system needs to be rebooted. And the overwhelming sleepiness I have felt these days, it feels bit like rebooting - in a way, it is different from ordinary state of sleep. I don't remember having any dreams, it is more like slipping into some deep state of self-hypnosis, which - I guess - is pretty close to the deepest states of ordinary sleep. Bit kind of a just "switching off" the daily consciousness, letting the sub-conscious brain patterns to reset and to re-organize.

Or, I hope so =) While I'm still in the middle of this process, I have no way of knowing how long this takes, how many days I have to just rest properly, and in which condition I will emerge out of this extreme sleepiness. (As, I certainly do believe that this is just a temporary period, and the best things I can do is not to fight against it, but to allow myself to go with the process.)