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.