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.