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See, you're already limiting yourself. The object isn't to indicate sleep with a blinking light, it's to indicate sleep.

A sleeping computer could softly snore. Or the logo text on the lid could blur like tired vision. Neither of those is a blinking light.

It's not hard to imagine a PC laptop manufacturer designing a light that moves side to side like a Cylon. In fact, this might even be a good fit for an Alienware laptop.

That's not an indicator that your computer is sleeping. That's an indicator that your computer is going to try and annihilate the human race.

(I think Mozilla has an oscillating status bar they use, which is called a "Cylon".)

There are infinite many ways of doing so. :)

For example, somewhat like the Fibonacci sequence like it is incorporated in the Lateralus song by Tool. That would be awesome.

Could've used two lights to recreate the effect of eyes sleepily almost-opening, blinking and closing.