than the latter two examples, is the idea of infatuation. This is a very common experience in which we become blinded to a person's true self, and see them as The One, the perfect person. Only when we wake up do we realize that this object of our affection is indeed a real person, one who is not perfect, and indeed has faults, like everyone else. This is rarely a pleasant experience, when you must take that person down off the pedestal, and although it is unpleasant, it is much healthier to see a person's faults and accept them as opposed to ignoring them and pretending they are not there.
             The main problem with falling asleep is that it is terribly habit forming. One we become used to the ease of losing control and not having to deal with hardships, it becomes easy to just continually let it happen. When we see how easy it is to deal with anger by punching someone, why try to use other, less violent tactics? When we see how easy it is to be on drugs all the time and not have to deal with reality, why be sober? This is why so many drugs are habit forming, even those that are not physically addictive. Often times psychological addiction is just as hard, if not harder to break than a physical addiction.
             One bad habit that I feel is strongly related to falling asleep is the Spiral of Violence that Walter Wink talks about in his book The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millenium. This book talks about The Powers, which are invisible forces controlling our lives, such as socie
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