Topic: Long exposures of sleeping couples

[original_ann]

Fabulous!

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/02/long-exposure-photos-of-sleeping-couples.html

[jojonas~]

great~~~~ good shots like these of people sleeping are hard to come by. I really like them for some reason it's calming in a way

[calbisu]

Thanks for sharing, inspiration is everywhere..

[LT]

These are amazing - thanks for the link Ann. I was expecting it to be a bit voyeuristic, and uncomfortable ... But actually they are fascinating, and show some really tender moments between the couples.

Basic body language understanding shows how people who like each other will mirror each other's gestures when flirting etc, but I never thought that would happen in sleep! yet, here there seems to be a lot of copying behaviour. I really liked the shot of the couple both with hands behind their heads  - often it would seem! All I could think about was dead arms and pin-n-needles. Hate it when that happens.

I'm prone to night-terrors and flying out of bed to fight off the (imaginary) spiders/aliens/intruders/robots/killer kittens (once). I wonder how that would have recorded! Mostly with my poor wife sat up looking resigned to another ofm,y mad delusionary quests causing her sleep deprivation

[Francois]

I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who has agitated sleep... though no killer kittens for me 

[Paul Mitchell]

Great find! The very nature of the technique renders them quite ethereal. Good job they don't come with sound!

My wife regales me of her dreams in minute detail and they range from the mundane to the outright weird (no killer kittens ether!), I on the other hand don't remember a thing!

[Miles]

I used to have a reoccurring one as a child, huge airliner from Thunderbirds pilot episode with my entire family in it.  Except me. Coming into land with no runway.  Runway made of hexagonal blocks that have to fit together in the right way or the plane will crash on landing.

All the blocks can talk, there are millions of them and they won't listen to me and get in the right order and all night long the plane get's lower and lower and the blocks argue more and more.

Then I wake up exhausted.

[LT]

Miles - I'm concerned. So much detail, so complex. I know people who can help you  - just give me a call when y9u feel ready to address this. 

Mine aren't nightmares, they are night terrors - my eyes are open and I'm fully conversant and ambulant. Doing what is necessary to protect us. I don't remember anything the next day.

I put it down to smoking too many dried banana skins when I was a teen.

 

[Phil Bebbington]

I could bore you with a period  when Abe Lincoln appeared in the corner of the bedroom for a week. I used to wake my wife up just to try and make it real - I could see him, she couldn't!

Then there was the ceiling alive with frogs and tiger on a shelf above the bed.

I could really do with someone to talk to over a pint or two 

BTW - all of the above is true.

I did love the photos though - thank you, Ann and  I hope you are having a happy birthday.

[LT]

Happy Birthday Ann - 21 again, I'm sure

Phil - another NT sufferer? It's a terrible yet mildly amusing affliction. We're in a ‹1% minority. That makes us special parasomniacs.

[Alan]

I really enjoyed these, kind of unique theme/project. sleep for me is kind of something necessary that id love not to have to do. As soon as i turn the light off im gone in within 30 ... seconds! and i pretty much wake up in the same position 

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[astrobeck]

Very interesting to watch...  I'm glad there were volunteers and I just wonder what they thought when they saw themselves sleeping and interacting in their slumbers...

In my dreams everyone, including animals are telepaths.  Everything talks!  Dogs are quite talkative as are the cats I dream about.

I also dream in Spanish sometimes.

 

[Francois]

Happy B'day Ann

[original_ann]

Thanks for the birthday wishes, fine friends!

I too found them soothing and tender...  Gosh, could there be a connection between being an artist and night terrors?  Leon, the thought.... open eyes and protecting your fortress.  I wish that on no one - I've heard how horrible they are and on 3 or 4 occasions in my life I"ve been in that scary situation where you dream you are awake, but you cannot move... for hours.  BAD, BAD dream, literally and figuratively.  For the most part I am a very good sleeper! 

Miles - what an incredible stress dream sequence!  And Phil... are you sure you're not a physical medium who can see dead people? Seriously!

[Phil Bebbington]

Leon, we are indeed special. Jan has been saying that for years!

Lincoln was black and white and refused to move, but, those frogs and that tiger sure made up for it. The night seems oddly boring these days.

[LT]

- I've heard how horrible they are and on 3 or 4 occasions in my life I"ve been in that scary situation where you dream you are awake, but you cannot move... for hours.  BAD, BAD dream, literally and figuratively.!

Ahh, the old sleep paralysis state. Often accompanied by the sensation of a staring figure/ supernatural being. Fuseli made paintings of it:



The wonderful Oliver Sachs discusses it in his book on hallucinations - fascinating reading. It has so many commonalities in experiences by different people that it is likely to a 'hard-wired' thing within our neural structures (so Sachs says at least).

[original_ann]

Leon, that's IT!  Aware of other people but unable to muster a scream for help or even try to inch off the bed in order to fall out of the bed and wake myself up!  Sheeshy, thank God it has only happened a few times...

[vicky slater]

Love the one with the tashed chap and woman with curls especially....very poetic.

[This-is-damion]

great stuff