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.