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.-~:$%§### ~~::~~ ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### ... sleep ... ###§%$:~-.
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.-~:$%§### sleep is the most important meal of the ###§%$:~-.
...--~$$§§ day. sleep is saying goodbye for a §§$$~--...
.-~:$%§### while. if you can dream, you also get ###§%$:~-.
.-~:::%§§# to visit friends and other animals. #§§%:::~-.
.-~:$%§§## ##§§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### ..--.. ###§%$:~-.
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......-~$§ deeper than death is to be alive and §$~-......
.-~:$%§### asleep. it is death if it was temporary ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### and rejuvenating. ###§%$:~-.
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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. ##%:-.....
.-~:$%§### ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### ..--.. ###§%$:~-.
....-~$$§# #§$$~-....
.....--:%# when you sleep all sound is internal. #%:--.....
....-:%%§# when you sleep your brain shrinks. #§%%:-....
.-~:$%§### ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### ..--.. ###§%$:~-.
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-~:$%§#### if you wish to measure sleep, use these ####§%$:~-
.-~:$%§### four quantifiers:: grip, deepness, ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### otherworldiness and revitalization. ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%%§§# #§§%%$:~-.
.....-~$$§ grip goes from not being able to let go §$$~-.....
.-~:$%%§§# all day (left) to not caring to #§§%%$:~-.
-~:$%§#### remember (right). ####§%$:~-
.-~:$%§### ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$$%§§# deepness goes from being several #§§%$$:~-.
...--~$$%§ hundred meters down (left) to barely §%$$~--...
......-:%§ 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). §§%:~.....
...---~:%§ §%:~---...
.-~:$$$%## -- ##%$$$:~-.
....-:$§§§ §§§$:-....
.-~:$%§### high otherworldliness and high grip is ###§%$:~-.
....-:%§§# a particularly effective combo. #§§%:-....
.-~:$%§### ###§%$:~-.
.~:$%§#### ~~::~~ ####§%$:~.
.-~:$%§### ... see also ... ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### --~~-- ###§%$:~-.
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.-~:$%§### sleep deities ###§%$:~-.
.-~:$%§### the blackbird ###§%$:~-.
.....~~$§# solipsism #§$~~.....
.-~:$$$$§§ §§$$$$:~-.
.......~$§ ~~::~~ §$~.......
.-~:$%§### ... furthermore ... ###§%$:~-.
...--:$%§§ --~~-- §§%$:--...
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..---~:$%§ this is still a place: here, in the §%$:~---..
....~::$$§ 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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.-~:$%§§§# #§§§%$:~-.
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