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.