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.