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.