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.