blink.

Reality needs to be watched in order to keep itself existing. Atlas used to take on that responsibility, but his time is over because in our time people believe more in science than in Greek mythology.

This is why our modern earth is divided into time zones. Time zones are designed so that different people would wake and sleep at different times. And this is why time zones do not work in blocks – they work in gradation, to ensure that there will always be someone waking when all the others are sleeping.

Once every million years, however, everyone that is waking would blink at exactly the same time, for exactly the same duration, and put reality in jeopardy. It is suspected that the dinosaurs and all the compatriots in their reality once did exactly that. Lucky for us in our time of history, plants do not blink, and as much as we often look down on them, they do constitute part of our reality.