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@&†=«:.... ... sleep ... ....:«=†&@
#@&†=«:... ::««:: ...:«=†&@#
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###@&†=«:. 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. ....:«=†&@
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«:........ deeper than death is to be alive and ........:«
=«:....... asleep. it is death if it was temporary .......:«=
†=«:...... and rejuvenating. ......:«=†
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@&†=«:.... ..::.. ....:«=†&@
#@&†=«:... ...:«=†&@#
##@&†=«:.. 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. ....:«=†&@
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«:........ when you sleep all sound is internal. ........:«
=«:....... when you sleep your brain shrinks. .......:«=
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#@&†=«:... if you wish to measure sleep, use these ...:«=†&@#
##@&†=«:.. four quantifiers:: grip, deepness, ..:«=†&@##
###@&†=«:. otherworldiness and revitalization. .:«=†&@###
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#@&†=«:... grip goes from not being able to let go ...:«=†&@#
@&†=«:.... all day (left) to not caring to ....:«=†&@
&†=«:..... remember (right). .....:«=†&
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=«:....... 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). .....:«=†&
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=«:....... high otherworldliness and high grip is .......:«=
†=«:...... a particularly effective combo. ......:«=†
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#@&†=«:... ... see also ... ...:«=†&@#
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##@&†=«:.. sleep deities ..:«=†&@##
#@&†=«:... the blackbird ...:«=†&@#
@&†=«:.... solipsism ....:«=†&@
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†=«:...... 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. .....:«=†&
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