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.