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.