A slumber is a person. Or was one, at least; depending on your politics on the relative disenfranchisement of its disembodied contents. It is composed of a vessel. An approximate half meter teardrop of dark, chemical glass. Roughly amphora-shaped, though handleless, neckless, and sometimes variably gourdlike. Sealed lidless like an ampoule the width of a large human skull, at its widest.