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.