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.