What does this quote mean?

"how hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward." -antonin artaud, from the theatre of the absurd movement

I only the first part and its
when everything encourages us to sleep it means like were putting our energy into the thing were doing like after you build a sculpture your gonna be tired because you put all your energy into it
and the rest just sounds like someones going to sleep and dream about it or someone going after there dreams

To me this quote seems to be saying we need stop and see ourselves just as our subconscious does.