WHY HUMANS SLEEP IN BEDS

I’ve been watching where humans go when they stop for the night.

They do not lie down where they are. They leave the room and go to the same place every time.

There is a raised surface there. Soft. Covered.

They climb onto it and stay.

They do not spread out in the open. They pull layers over themselves instead. Cloth over their legs. Their middle. Sometimes all the way to the neck.

Then they disappear under it for the whole dark period.

They barely move after that. Sometimes one of them shifts from one side to the other and pulls the layers back into place again. If one of them gets up, they come back and go under again.

I have seen them do this even when the room changes. Hot room. Cold room. Different sounds outside. They still climb onto the raised surface and cover themselves before becoming still.

In the morning, the layers stay twisted where the bodies moved underneath them during the night.

I think humans do not sleep out in the open. At night, they lift themselves off the ground and hide their bodies under layers so nothing can reach them while they are unconscious. That is why they always return to the raised surface before the dark period begins.

June (quietly): “What if part of them stays uncovered?”

Walter: “They pull the layers higher after a while.”