the words weren't mine

Around the time that Loomis was conducting EEG experiments in his mansion, the surrealist artist was experimenting with his own transitions into sleep. As he described it in his 1948 book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, he would sit in a “bony armchair, preferably of Spanish style,” while loosely holding a heavy key in one palm above an upside-down plate on the floor. As he drifted off, his hands would slacken — and eventually the key would fall through his fingers. The sudden clack of the key hitting the plate would wake him. read more

IMAGE: Vivian Maier