Annabel Abbs-Streets, in her Feb. 5 op-ed, “I stopped trying to sleep — and found a different self in the night,” did a great service for the many of us who have been wondering whether we have a nocturnal self. She reported that the study “The Mind After Midnight” found evidence that “the brain, it appears, resets for nocturne. Some regions go into partial hibernation, others bloom.”
Now I know that I have a creative “night brain,” which mysteriously enables me to “think, feel, behave in ways we might not during daylight.” Thereby, we live 24/7, essentially in two realities and as two seemingly independent selves.
It’s fascinating and comforting to know I have another existence and life during the hours beyond the reach of my conscious self. Every night as I go to bed, I will gladly greet my nocturnal self, knowing that my night brain will be blooming in ways my daylight self can hardly comprehend.
Lou Evangelista, Chevy Chase
