Meditations before bed

Author's name: Osho

30% of New Yorkers can't sleep without sleeping pills. Psychologists believe that if this continues for another 200 years, not a single person will be able to sleep without sleeping pills. People have completely lost the ability to sleep. If someone who has lost the ability to sleep asks you, "How do you sleep?" and you tell them, "I lay my head on the pillow and fall asleep," they won't believe you. They'll consider it impossible and suspect that you have some trick they don't know about—because they also lay their heads on the pillow, but they can't sleep. There may come a time, God forbid, in a thousand or two thousand years, when everyone will lose normal sleep. People won't believe that, a thousand or two thousand years ago, people slept normally. They'll consider it a fantasy, a myth. They won't believe it's real. They'll say, "This is impossible because it doesn't happen to us, so how can we believe it happened to others??