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.