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.