The Fourth Hour

 

The Breeze at Dawn

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you

don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want

don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open

don't go back to sleep. 

Rumi

Do you ever wake up between 3 and 5 in the morning.  I do all the time.  I just pop awake and lay there in the dark thinking WTF? I often just want to go back to sleep.  Should I?This is the time that devote members of spiritual practices across the globe get up to pray or meditate.  Why?  It is considered a sacred space or hour where the veil between the unconsconscious and the conscious, the visible and the invisible, lifts. Carl Jung honored this time and saw it as deeply significant for accessing those parts of the mind that are often hidden. Others like Rumi...see/seen it as a time to connect and honor the unseen. I am not sure what it is but last evening before going to bed I seen a little youtube video on this time, what is called "the fourth hour", and I went to bed thinking about it. Somewhere in the night my eyes popped open and I found myself wide awake.  I said to myself, "No, This is kooky." I reached over to check the time. "3:05". So I had to sit up and meditate for a while lol...what else could I do? I couldn't just go back to sleep. 

All is well.