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.