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.