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.