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.