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.