Sleep State

Doctor Tesla-K. is an inspiring leader of men.
His dedication to The Great Work is the stuff of legend.
He's usually the first to arrive at The Laboratories, and often the last to leave. The Dr. is known for not leaving his experiments for weeks, working long hours between a few winks of sleep.

So you'd say that his research on T*I*M*E-alteration should probably be nearing its conclusion by now.
But Time is a metaphysical monster, and it is not easily tamed.
As Tesla-K. is a metaphysical reality too, we can rest assured that all is well.
Another thing we can be sure of: the Doctor is also easily distracted.

One of those distractions involves his personal research into the Soul of Man.
As a metaphysical being the Doctor can only imagine what is like to be real: He doesn't need sleep. We do. Doesn't know hunger or thirst or boredom, anxiety, bliss or the feeling of mild unease.
He wouldn't feel love if we rammed it with a red hot poker up his behind, so to speak. He would perhaps experience it on some meta-level, but we all understand: that is *not* what is like to be real.

His trusted assistant, The Soul Representative, on the other hand, does.
The Soul Rep. lost his mother when he was himself still very much a son. And then, when that un/child finally became a man... he lost his son, and he became kind of an un/father too.
And, naturally, he lost many, many Great Loves while he was on that path. There's been other shit too. You know, the fucked up kind. Seen it all.
However, The Soul Rep. considers himself to be much, much better at being happy than he is at being sad.
An ideal guinea pig for the Doctor's experiments!
The Soul Representative is a "consenting adult".

DISCLAIMER:
The Tesla-K.Organization is "proefdiervrij".

So The Soul Representative volunteered to be the subject of a sleep-state / dream-state / wake-state experiment. He also suggested piggybacking a tiny but important aspect of his personal research into love.
This proved to be "interesting".
The experiment took place in Rm. 26, Ward 10A of the Slotervaart Ziekenhuis - a.k.a. The Secret SleepLab...
While there, The Soul Representative (disguised as M.Koppenberg) also subjected himself to a thorough clinical examination of his sleep-state.

The metaphysical part (the clinical results are not in yet) is pictured below this text.
We'd like to thank the graphics dept. of the Tesla-K.Org for their fine work. Please click the pictures or the links to the graphics to view or download them in glorious full resolution. As always, they are released with a Creative Commons License (attribution, share alike, non commercial use). Slap 'em on your desktop!
Explanation:
The first graphic shows the Soul Representative's mental and emotional state a few hours before the experiment.
The second graphic shows us the difference between expectation and reality.
The final graphic does a good job of explaining The Process in our trade mark "Three Easy Steps".
This is what it's all about, people!

Sincerely, your lovin' dolphin.