The Beauty of Sleeping

The Beauty of

Sleeping

Dibrini loves all Waltz Disney’s classic Cartoons, especially for the Sleeping Beauty. It gives Dibrini a different dimension about sleeping.

In this story, the Sleeping Beauty, sleeping gives a calm, still, and almost dead atmosphere. Sleeping seems to be time-freezing because when things fall into a sleep, one of the visible states of sleeping is being still. For example, it a clock sleeps, it tends to stop ticking. In the Sleeping Beauty, when Beauty falls asleep as designated to, the whole town falls asleep with her. Birds stop singing, cars stop running, and all the guards fall asleep at his duty. Even day suddenly turns to night.

On the contrary, the Dibrinian sleep is different from that of Beauty’s. In the Dibrinian sleep, things flutter multidirectionally in gravity-less space in an inert motion. Imagine an egg yolk floating in and among its transparent white, there seems to be a boundary for that free movement which actually performs no imprisonment on its freedom.

When things fall into a Dibrinian sleep, they are NOT still. Rather, they move. Their movements, moreover, are uncontrollable. Things in their sleep—unconsciousness, unnoticibility, invisibility—even shift, transit, transform, metamorphose. But most of all, IN and FROM their sleeps, things EMERGE. Things are given birth to. They start at that very moment come in contact with the world. From nowhere to somewhere. From nothing into something. In the very sleep of theirs.

This image of sleep is different from what Dibrini has experienced from Sleeping Beauty. Dibrini likes both interpretations of sleep. But now Dibrini falls into wonder. Sleep is full if beauty in and of itself. But is that beauty, and therefore the sleep itself, desirable?

Sometimes, Dibrini feels things force themselves to reach the fathom of sleep as though the sleep was so undeniable; but often Dibrini sees that things always try to wake up though they are unable to.