In each piece, Counting sheep considers what Henri Bergson describes as the socially derived or constructed tendency to quantify the things and the experiences of the world. Put more simply, this refers to where a thing or an experience is defined only in terms of the amount of a particular attribute that it is said to possess.

As an example, one might say; eating vanilla ice cream makes me more happy than eating strawberry ice cream. Here the “thing” would be ice cream, the “experience” would be eating the ice cream, and the attribute of the experience that is being quantified would be “happiness.”

This socially constructed quantifying tendency is explored in each piece via three stages:

(1) The context of the thing or the experience that has been quantified is discussed.

(2) The thing or the experience that has been quantified is identified.

(3) The quantification of the thing or the experience is evaluated via four positions (using adaptable templates):

i. Extreme social constructionist. The social construction of a thing/experience misrepresents what is real-natural about the thing/experience.

ii. Exclusive social constructionist. The social construction of a thing/experience is all that the thing/experience ever is.

iii. Real-natural social constructionist. The social construction of a thing/experience is a part of what is real-natural about the thing/experience.

iv. Incorrect real-natural social constructionist. The social construction of a thing/experience is a part of what is real-natural about the thing/experience, but is incorrect about that thing/experience.