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.