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.