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.