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.