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.