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.