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.:~==@£@##               ... 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. ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@##                  ..::..                  ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@## deeper than  death  is to  be alive  and ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@# asleep. it is death if  it was temporary #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@##            and rejuvenating.             ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@##                  ..::..                  ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@## 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.           ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@##                  ..::..                  ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@## when  you sleep  all sound is  internal. ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@# when  you  sleep  your  brain   shrinks. #@£@==~:..
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..:~==@£@#                  ..::..                  #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@##                                          ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@# 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).             #@£@==~:..
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..:~==@£@#     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).                 ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@## revitalization goes  from a  feeling  of ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@# not having slept  at all (left) to being #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@## full  of   energy  and   maybe  optimism ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@#                 (right).                 #@£@==~:..
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..:~==@£@#                    ::                    #@£@==~:..
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..:~==@£@# high otherworldliness  and high grip  is #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@##      a particularly effective combo.     ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@##                  ~~==~~                  ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@#             ... see also ...             #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@##                  ::~~::                  ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@##              sleep deities               ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@#              the blackbird               #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@##                 solipsism                ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@##                  ~~==~~                  ##@£@==~:.
..:~==@£@#           ... furthermore ...            #@£@==~:..
.:~==@£@##                  ::~~::                  ##@£@==~:.
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.:~==@£@## 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.           #@£@==~:..
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