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.