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.