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.