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The theme of "Lie Down and Sleep Again" is derived from a quote from the classic character Fan Debiao in the TV series "Marshal Ma": "The best way to end sleepwalking is to lie down and sleep again, and when I wake up, a new Debiao will stand on the ground of Liaobei..."

In the play, the sleepwalking life eventually destroys Fan Debiao's real life, and in order to change this bad and irreversible situation, he chooses to eat a whole bottle of sleeping pills, lie down and go back to sleep, and "restart" his life. To a certain extent, this shows the inseparability of illusion and reality, where sleep and illusion are entangled with the spirit, just like organisms are entangled with the body. The harmonic sense of the play "Lying Down to Sleep Again" is that after De Biao wakes up from his "re-sleeping", he finds that all is really well in life, but there is nothing to prove whether it is a new reality or the next "sleepwalking", another kind of hallucination, and a new reality. But there is nothing to prove whether this is a new reality or the next "sleepwalking", another hallucination, but at least the choices he has made have had an effect.

It is interesting to note that such a set of escapist and self-negating behaviours, actions, constitute a sort of "between-the-scenes" moment for the subject himself, i.e., I am driven by my own real desires without realising it; I make the decision to deny my own reality and start again.

The theme of "Lie Down and Sleep Again" is derived from a quote from the classic character Fan Debiao in the TV series "Marshal Ma": "The best way to end sleepwalking is to lie down and sleep again, and when I wake up, a new Debiao will stand on the ground of Liaobei..."

In the play, the sleepwalking life eventually destroys Fan Debiao's real life, and in order to change this bad and irreversible situation, he chooses to eat a whole bottle of sleeping pills, lie down and go back to sleep, and "restart" his life. To a certain extent, this shows the inseparability of illusion and reality, where sleep and illusion are entangled with the spirit, just like organisms are entangled with the body. The harmonic sense of the play "Lying Down to Sleep Again" is that after De Biao wakes up from his "re-sleeping", he finds that all is really well in life, but there is nothing to prove whether it is a new reality or the next "sleepwalking", another kind of hallucination, and a new reality. But there is nothing to prove whether this is a new reality or the next "sleepwalking", another hallucination, but at least the choices he has made have had an effect.

It is interesting to note that such a set of escapist and self-negating behaviours, actions, constitute a sort of "between-the-scenes" moment for the subject himself, i.e., I am driven by my own real desires without realising it; I make the decision to deny my own reality and start again.

Springtime fatigue-sleeping-sleepwalking-laying down to re-sleep, between one scene and another. From one reality to another, or from one illusion to another. Can the artist's "sleepiness" in today's contemporary art ecosystem be regarded as a "Debussy-type" symptom? How to change this state? Perhaps the first and only thing we can do is to make individual choices, choosing to change and start over. In Capitalism and Schizophrenia: A Thousand Plateaus, it is written that "the consciousness is detached from the subject in order to form a way of exploration, and the unconscious is detached from meaning and interpretation in order to form a real production". Whether this action of "lying down to sleep" can somehow pass through the shackles of interpretation and meaning, and thus arrive at a deeper moment in the interstices.

It is only when the curtain closes that one feels one's own intense interiority - the best way to put an end to the illusion is to lie down and go back to sleep, and in the midst of the dream, new discoveries and productions will begin again.