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.