SALVADOR DALI NAPPED WITH A KEY IN HIS HANDS. He was a champion of the power nap, using his “slumber with key” method to wake him as soon as he fell asleep. Sitting in a chair, Dali would hold a metal key in his hand over a metal plate, and the moment sleep began to overcome him, the key would slip from his fingers and clang noisily on the plate below, waking him from the brief moments he had barely lost consciousness. “Not a second more is needed for your physical and psychic being to be revivified by just the necessary amount of repose,” Dali wrote in 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. His practice took advantage of hypnagogia, the transitional state between when you’re fully conscious and asleep. During this time, people can experience visual and auditory hallucinations (have you ever thought someone was calling your name just as you were drifting off to sleep?), sleep paralysis, synesthesia, and feelings of out-of-body-experiences. Andreas Mavromatis explains in his book Hypnagogia that when we are in this state, our ego boundaries loosen up and we are more open to a fluid association of ideas.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:37:01 +0000
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