a dreaming snail?

Do the snails have dreams?

Actually I do not know correct answer, all sources I have read didnt spill any light on this (quite a special, I admit!) question. But animals do sleep not like us, humans, their sleep (generally) is shorter and more discrete, and sometimes its a half-sleep or even quarter-sleep, or a sleepy condition (whatever this mean).

Here go a few macros from tonight's evening shoot (I added a bit more light processing the .raws, and I used a long exposure -- but you can rely on my words, it was an evening, not any other part of the day!).

So, what is so special with this common well-spread land grape snail? It curved its head and put it upon the shell, and it really, really looked very relaxed, like it is having a rest from all day works. A sleep, or half-sleep, but it wasnt moving anywhere, just rested and -- I thought it maybe A Sleep? Of course, if the snails do sleep at all.

This image became a special for me, hope you enjoyed it too!

location:	Russian countryside	June 2020	natural lighting
camera/lens:	Canon 350D	Tamron 60mm	raw-conv
f 2.5	t 1/25	ISO 400

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As a bonus, one more image: we spent 4 or maybe more hours in a company with this unidentified (yet) nice insect. Can you believe it?! From the start we very careful and hold our breating, considering it can take off in every second, but later understand that it is not going anyway -- maybe it was injured, or too frozen, or just finished its life cycle... I really dont know the right answer to this riddle! But at least I used the time for getting some macro shots. Unfortunately, I have some decent sun light glimpses only in the end of the session, so the slender evening light didnt give me too much chances for excellence...anyway. Enjoy the little preview teaser, the rest will follow soon.

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