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Do you believe in the Sandman? No? Then why do you think there are little grains of dirt in the corner of your eyes every morning when you wake up? When you were young, who do you think made you sleepy when it was time for bed? Your dad's bedtime story? No. You wanted to hear another one. Your mum coming to kiss you goodnight? No. You said you still wanted some chocolate. It's the Sandman that pours sand over your eyes. Why do you think your eyelids became so heavy all of a sudden. He wants you to sleep. He needs you to sleep. To dream. Each grain of sand is like a seed and like with all seeds some take root and some do not. Some grow a bit

  Distance is measured in many ways. A few nanometers in wavelength decide whether we see light as red or green. A few inches mean you're tall or short. A few meters determine the outcome of a race. A few blocks can be a long drive in New York traffic. Some 26,000 miles or four continents and three oceans were the distance Phileas Fogg traveled in 80 days. And it's some 4.2 light-years from the sun to the nearest star Proxima Centauri.  620 light-years separate me from the one I love. This means the light itself needs 620 years to traverse this distance. And nothing can go faster. That's what Einstein teaches us. 620 years of cold, dark emp