This pro aging trance is what stops us from agitating about these things.

I love to use the analogy the inner snooze button you have these amazing ideas that bubble up.

Least of all could it have been that my fancy, shaken from its half slumber, had mistaken the head for that of a living person.

Her visitor, she saw as she opened the door, was seated in the armchair before the fire, dozing it would seem, with his bandaged head drooping on one side.

For the most part he was quite still during that time it would seem he sat in the growing darkness smoking in the firelight perhaps dozing.

She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

And finally, of course, I think it's fair to say that a large part of the reason why the public is so ambivalent about aging now is the global trance I spoke about earlier, the coping strategy.