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..:-:†%##@               ... sleep ...              @##%†:-:..
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...:-:†%## 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.           @##%†:-:..
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....:-:†%#                  ..::..                  #%†:-:....
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..:-:†%##@ when you  sleep  all sound is  internal. @##%†:-:..
.:-:†%##@# when  you  sleep   your  brain  shrinks. #@##%†:-:.
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...:-:†%##                  ..::..                  ##%†:-:...
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...:-:†%## if you wish to  measure sleep, use these ##%†:-:...
..:-:†%##@    four quantifiers:: grip, deepness,    @##%†:-:..
.:-:†%##@#    otherworldiness and revitalization.   #@##%†:-:.
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...:-:†%## grip goes  from not being able to let go ##%†:-:...
....:-:†%# all   day  (left)   to  not   caring  to #%†:-:....
...:-:†%##            remember (right).             ##%†:-:...
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.:-:†%##@#     deepness goes from being several     #@##%†:-:.
..:-:†%##@ hundred meters  down  (left)  to  barely @##%†:-:..
...:-:†%##      touching the surface (right).       ##%†:-:...
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...:-:†%##    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).                 #@##%†:-:.
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...:-:†%## high otherworldliness and  high  grip is ##%†:-:...
..:-:†%##@     a particularly effective combo.      @##%†:-:..
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...:-:†%##             ... see also ...             ##%†:-:...
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..:-:†%##@               sleep deities              @##%†:-:..
.:-:†%##@#              the blackbird               #@##%†:-:.
..:-:†%##@                 solipsism                @##%†:-:..
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....:-:†%#                  --::--                  #%†:-:....
...:-:†%##           ... furthermore ...            ##%†:-:...
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..:-:†%##@ 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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