sleep                
                                    
                                          
 sleep is the most important meal of  the 
 day.  sleep  is  saying  goodbye  for  a 
 while.  if you  can  dream, you also get 
 to  visit  friends  and  other  animals. 
                                          
                                    
                                          
 deeper than  death  is to be  alive  and 
 asleep. it  is death if it was temporary 
            and rejuvenating.             
                                          
                                    
                                          
 sleep  is  a  black  marble  outside  of 
 which there  is  nothing.  inside is all 
 the   stars   and   in   the  middle   a 
 black lake. at  the  foot  of  this lake 
          stands an old friend.           
                                          
                                    
                                          
 when  you sleep  all sound  is internal. 
 when  you  sleep  your  brain   shrinks. 
                                          
                                    
                                          
 if you wish to measure sleep,  use these 
    four quantifiers:: grip, deepness,    
    otherworldiness and revitalization.   
                                          
 grip goes from not being able to let  go 
 all  day  (left)   to   not   caring  to 
            remember (right).             
                                          
     deepness goes from being several     
 hundred  meters  down (left)  to  barely 
      touching the surface (right).       
                                          
    otherworldliness goes from a single   
  coherent dreamscape (left), via normal  
 dream  amounts  (middle)  to  no  dreams 
                 (right).                 
                                          
 revitalization  goes  from  a feeling of 
 not having slept at all (left)  to being 
 full  of   energy  and   maybe  optimism 
                 (right).                 
                                          
                                        
                                          
 high  otherworldliness and  high grip is 
      a particularly effective combo.     
                                          
                                    
              see also              
                                    
                                          
               sleep deities              
               the blackbird              
                solipsism                 
                                          
                                    
            furthermore             
                                    
                                          
 this is  still  a  place: here,  in  the 
 silence,  darkness   and  night  -   and 
 loneliness, holding a  kind of  dilution 
 of  reality,  and   suddenly  it's   not 
 important  that i  lie  in  my bed,  the 
 lack  of  presence   brings  the  notion 
 that,  if  i  do  not  choose  sleep,  i 
    choose past, future, something with   
 more  substance  than  the   objects   i 
           surround myself with.