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.