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.