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.