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I have always liked to read before going to sleep, it helps me get to sleep at night. Often I will try to keep reading way past the point when I should just turn of the light and close my eyes (especially when the book I am reading has really long chapters [like Love in the Time of Cholera, which I am reading now], I do not like to stop reading mid chapter). Often this results in my laying in bed with one eye open, fighting off sleep as best I can, trying desperately to stay awake until the end of the paragraph. 'Just one more paragraph' I keep telling myself, 'then you can sleep'. Quite often I do not make it and nod off to sleep still holding my book. Usually when I do this the transition from reading to dreaming is (seemingly) seamless, I just continue on with the story where it left off, but now dreaming it as I go along (until I drop my book onto my chest and wake myself up, and then often I keep on going with the dreams). Lately I have spent a lot of dream-time in turn of the century Central/South America. Marquez is pretty conducive to this as the rules of the universe in my dreams and magical realism are usually not too different. The end result, however, is that I can never tell what was dream and what was actually going on in the story, have to read parts over and therefore take forever to get through anything.