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.