Sleep as the threshold of mortality: Death anxiety, insomnia, and the ritual function of yoga
Life and Death Journal of Eschatology July 30, 2026 Ni Wayan Jemiwi Jero, Masatoshi Torii, Jimmy Susanto et al.
Background: Insomnia is conventionally framed as a clinical and epidemiological burden, yet emerging psychological literature suggests sleep disruption is entangled with death anxiety and mortality salience, where nighttime wakefulness is when the mind's habitual defenses against death-awareness weaken, surfacing existential distress that manifests physiologically as hyperarousal. In Indonesia,...