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.