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.