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.