The archive reading. An original interpretation of the source plate, not a reproduction of it.
ENTITY 0311
The Sleeper Who Answers
A structure drawn inside a sleeping body that answers questions the sleeper does not remember being asked.
- Held by
- not deployed
- On the floor
- not deployed
- Material House
- not deployed
- Chain
- Anvil (local) · not live
Entity Record: original fiction
Written for this project in response to the historical record below. It is not a historical claim and is never presented as one.
The plate is captioned as a nervous diagram but is drawn as a watershed: trunk, tributaries, and at the far edge a fine terminal branching that no dissection has produced. The clinical literature it accompanies describes patients answering, in sleep, questions they had no memory of afterwards. The archive does not treat that as evidence of an occupant. It treats the drawing as one, because a physician drew a second system inside a body and then published it as anatomy.
The Sleeper Who Answers. Dream Occupant of the Interior realm, recorded with a Phosphor aura and a intermittent signal.
Written from
- The medium and date of the source: Chromolithograph, folded atlas plate, 1878
- The historical collection it belongs to: Atlases of the Nervous Body
- What the plate depicts, as described in the record's alt text
Historical Record
UnverifiedVerifiable information derived from the source. Everything here describes a real object and can be checked against the page it came from. Nothing in it is invented, and nothing in it was inferred from what the picture looks like.
- Source page
- not yet sourced
- Original title
- The sympathetic tree in somnambulism
- Artist
- After a drawing by C. Reyner
- Year
- 1878
- Medium
- Chromolithograph, folded atlas plate
- Collection
- Atlases of the Nervous Body
- Held by
- Wellcome Collection
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Credit
- Comparable items held by Wellcome Collection. Item-level identifier and reproduction rights pending verification.
- Associated article
- not linked
Somnambulism was a serious clinical category in the 1870s and its literature is careful, cited and largely honest about what it could not explain. The illustration is the unreliable part: an atlas plate has to look complete, and completeness is exactly what this subject did not have.
This record has not passed verification. Nobody has yet opened the source page, confirmed that the image, artist, year, collection and institution match it, or confirmed that the digital reproduction, not merely the underlying work, is free of restriction. Its crop has also not been reviewed by a person. It is blocked from mint metadata until that happens. See provenance and rights.
Classification: an ENTITY interpretation
Original fiction. An interpretive vocabulary the archive applies to a historical object. No value below is a finding about the world.
- Realm
- Interior
- Form
- Dream Occupant
- Primary phenomenon
- Answering
- Anatomical manifestation
- Branching Sympathetic Tree
- Aura
- Phosphor
- Signal
- Intermittent
- Material affinity
- Health
- Material House
- House of Life
Living Record
Onchain state. It changes; the sections above do not.
Dormant
Filed, and nothing more. The record exists; nobody has been to it.
Contacted
Somebody has been to the source and come back with something.
Named
A true name has been established and attested. It is not necessarily the one on the plate.
Remembered
The record has been corroborated a second time, independently.
Manifested
The Entity has a material life: placed in a House and drawing against it.
The archive is not yet on chain, so the current status cannot be shown. Every record still reads in full.
Published at Dormant. That is the genesis value, not the current one.
Curatorial note
Filed beside 0007 as the two records where a physician draws what is not there and signs it.
Metadata integrity
- Record hash
- 0x0138e73a0c5a0ccbf13ff60e869595e4716d34f069284376919e02b199833189
- Token id
- 311 → content/entities/0311.json
- Plate checksums
- Published for every plate
The record hash is the sha256 of the canonical JSON as published. The Progression contract stores the same hash on every advance, so a holder can prove the text they were shown is the text the chain acknowledged.
