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.