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........,~                  ~~//~~                  ~,........
.........,               ... 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.            $*/~,.....
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.......,~/                  ..,,..                  /~,.......
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........., sleep  is  a  black  marble  outside  of ,.........
........,~ which there is  nothing. inside  is  all ~,........
.......,~/ the   stars   and   in   the   middle  a /~,.......
......,~/* black lake.  at the  foot  of  this lake */~,......
.....,~/*$           stands an old friend.          $*/~,.....
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...,~/*$#£                  ..,,..                  £#$*/~,...
..,~/*$#£#                                          #£#$*/~,..
.,~/*$#£## when you  sleep  all sound  is internal. ##£#$*/~,.
..,~/*$#£# when  you  sleep  your  brain   shrinks. #£#$*/~,..
...,~/*$#£                                          £#$*/~,...
....,~/*$#                  ..,,..                  #$*/~,....
.....,~/*$                                          $*/~,.....
......,~/* if you wish to  measure sleep, use these */~,......
.......,~/    four quantifiers:: grip, deepness,    /~,.......
........,~    otherworldiness and revitalization.   ~,........
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........,~ grip goes from not being  able to let go ~,........
.......,~/ all  day   (left)   to  not  caring   to /~,.......
......,~/*            remember (right).             */~,......
.....,~/*$                                          $*/~,.....
....,~/*$#     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).                 $*/~,.....
......,~/*                                          */~,......
.......,~/ revitalization  goes from a  feeling  of /~,.......
........,~ not having slept at all (left) to  being ~,........
........., full   of  energy  and  maybe   optimism ,.........
........,~                 (right).                 ~,........
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....,~/*$# high otherworldliness and high  grip  is #$*/~,....
...,~/*$#£     a particularly effective combo.      £#$*/~,...
..,~/*$#£#                                          #£#$*/~,..
.,~/*$#£##                  ~~//~~                  ##£#$*/~,.
..,~/*$#£#             ... see also ...             #£#$*/~,..
...,~/*$#£                  ,,~~,,                  £#$*/~,...
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.....,~/*$               sleep deities              $*/~,.....
......,~/*              the blackbird               */~,......
.......,~/                 solipsism                /~,.......
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.........,                  ~~//~~                  ,.........
........,~            ... furthermore ...           ~,........
.......,~/                  ,,~~,,                  /~,.......
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.....,~/*$ 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.           */~,......
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