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.......=*†               ... 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. #@£@†*=...
....=*†@£@                                          @£@†*=....
.....=*†@£                  ......                  £@†*=.....
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.......=*† deeper  than death is  to be  alive  and †*=.......
........=* asleep. it is death  if it was temporary *=........
.........=             and rejuvenating.            =.........
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.......=*† 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. @†*=......
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.......... 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).                 =.........
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.........= 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 ...             @†*=......
.......=*†                  ..==..                  †*=.......
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.........=              sleep deities               =.........
..........              the blackbird               ..........
.........=                 solipsism                =.........
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.......=*†                  ==**==                  †*=.......
......=*†@           ... 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.          ..........
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