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.