Desire is experienced as sleep-like bodily languor, unlike appetites kept at a distance.

Evidence

Tiredness enables the human being to experience singular calm [Gelassenheit], serene not-doing. It is not a state in which the senses languish or grow dull. Rather, it rouses a special kind of visibility. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 82 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deep tiredness enables a special kind of perception and calm — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 82; The body is apprehended non-thetically as fatigue while consciousness attends to the world

Broader Connections

• The body is apprehended non-thetically as fatigue while consciousness attends to the world #corroborates (0.80)
• Deep tiredness enables a special kind of perception and calm #complicates (0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 82