Either you guys are slowly but surely teaching me to understand German, or this meme transcends language barriers
I can't really imagine that it does tbh, because it references two very specific German things, namely:the all-nightly public-TV kids show Sandmann, that revolves around a cute puppet helping kids sleep by ... throwing sand into their eyes vs. the novel Sandmann by ETA Hoffmann in which Sandmann steals the eyes of kids.
Als wir den in der Schule gelesen hatten, haben mich die Bilder vor meinen inneren Auge kalt erwischt, muss ich sagen. Sehr schaurig geschrieben.
Ausgang Licht
Eingang Nacht
Saaandkörner