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.