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.