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.