Last weekend started with a provocative share from Joshua Baer, CEO and co-founder of Capital Factory, to Mark Gober, author of some of my favorite books, and me about how whale’s dream. Whales are in a half-awake state when they sleep, as described here by ChatGPT:

“Whales are voluntary breathers — they must consciously surface to breathe, even when asleep. To do this, they experience unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS), where only one half of the brain sleeps at a time while the other half remains awake to maintain vital functions and awareness of surroundings.
• One hemisphere sleeps (deep rest, reduced awareness)
• One hemisphere stays awake (controls breathing, navigation, predator awareness)
• After a period, the sides switch.”

This sparked the idea to continue Dr. Alexander Bliss’s saga of awakening humanity, as I described in The Lattice (a science-fiction novella based on my short-story series, starting with God’s Final Exam).