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.