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........-= ==//== =-........
.........- ... 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. *^/=-.....
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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. -.........
........-= =-........
.......-=/ ..--.. /=-.......
......-=/^ ^/=-......
.....-=/^* 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. £*^/=-....
.....-=/^* *^/=-.....
......-=/^ 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 #£*^/=-...
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..-=/^*£## ... furthermore ... ##£*^/=-..
...-=/^*£# --==-- #£*^/=-...
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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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