Maybe sleepwalking is too dramatic a metaphor for the way we live our lives before God opens our eyes. But it will do until something better comes along. I do not know much about the biology of sleep and thus of sleepwalking, but the professionals are not too sure of much of it either. What we do know is that some people walk about a house, treat porch railings as tightropes, and engage in hazardous dances at heads of stairs -- not noticing the awakened world around them or remembering the path next morning. Some functions are there: eyes are open, hands stretch out.
