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.