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.