Cogs can think.

It’s around midnight. It’s pitch dark outside, the wind blowing through the large trees surrounding your apartment. It’s not warm, not cold, it’s both. It’s been a long day, spent at a theme park, and you’re dead tired. You close the curtains, start the shower. You prepare a towel, and make sure all the other shower accessories are in place.

Then, the magic ingredient. You turn off all the lights in your apartment, including the one in the bathroom. When it’s pitch dark in your home, and you can’t see 3 cm in front of you - then you slip into the shower.

And you enjoy it. For 30 minutes. In total darkness.

You turn off the shower, and slowly dry yourself with the prepared towel. And then, and only then, do you turn on the lights. They blind you. Your brain will be out of sync, and you immediately start to panic - I have to go to work, to university, I have to go and do something! And then you realise.

You’re not getting out of bed, you’re preparing to go into bed.

And then you’ll know you’ve beaten the system.

Sleep well.