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.......-;% 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. ..........
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.......... deeper  than  death  is to be  alive and ..........
.........- asleep. it  is death if it was temporary -.........
........-;             and rejuvenating.            ;-........
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........-; when you sleep all  sound  is  internal. ;-........
.........- when   you  sleep  your  brain  shrinks. -.........
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.......... if you wish to measure sleep,  use these ..........
..........    four quantifiers:: grip, deepness,    ..........
.........-    otherworldiness and revitalization.   -.........
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...-;%£§##       touching the surface (right).      ##§£%;-...
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.....-;%£§    otherworldliness goes from a single   §£%;-.....
......-;%£  coherent dreamscape (left), via normal  £%;-......
.......-;% dream  amounts  (middle)  to  no  dreams %;-.......
........-;                 (right).                 ;-........
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.......... revitalization  goes from  a  feeling of ..........
.......... not having slept at all (left)  to being ..........
.......... full  of   energy  and   maybe  optimism ..........
..........                 (right).                 ..........
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.......-;% high  otherworldliness and high grip  is %;-.......
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....-;%£§#               sleep deities              #§£%;-....
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.......... 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 ;-........
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