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.