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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.           ##@£§†~-..
...-~†§£@#                                          #@£§†~-...
....-~†§£@                  ..--..                  @£§†~-....
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......-~†§ 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.   †~-.......
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.....-~†§£ 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).                 †~-.......
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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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