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Flex Mentallo

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  1. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” Mahatma Gandhi
  2. “In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.” Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
  3. “God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.” Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
  4. “Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the night Than ever you found the day.” A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
  5. “Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary.” Abhysheq Shukla
  6. “Sleep is the most innocent creature.” Franz Kafka
  7. To others wiser than myself, I leave the remaining words.
  8. Each of these travelers slept alone, and waking, would never know who, or how many, had seen them dreaming.
  9. Only when awake can we bear witness to sleep, and never our own.
  10. Max Richter wrote a musical composition called Sleep which is 8 hours long. Of it he said 'For me, Sleep is an attempt to see how that space when your conscious mind is on holiday can be a place for music to live."
  11. I did not capture sleep, so much as the absence of wakefulness.
  12. Dreams not captured by the camera lens, only the sleeping shell.
  13. But even a hadron collider cannot capture a particle of sleep!
  14. My dreamcatcher could no more capture the mystery of this state than it could sub-atomic particles.
  15. The real intrusion here would have been upon their dreams, waking them back to gravity.
  16. To wake them would have been the intrusion consent commonly circumvents but never avoids.
  17. So in sleep they seem like figures out of myth, but instead of flying across a heavenly sky, these sleeping bodies swooped across the ground, the locomotives of their sleeping minds invisible.
  18. The vast expanse of concrete on which they lay (and with the minimum of bedding), seemed rather to me to be a mirror of heaven, reminding me of Tintoretto, Titian, and Tiepolo.
  19. So the purpose of this station has become for sleepers to dream.
  20. No signs said, 'Do not disturb', yet sleep continued en masse, unabated.