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.