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.