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.