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.