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.