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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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..:«^%%#@#                  ..::..                  #@#%%^«:..
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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.           #@#%%^«:..
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....:«^%%#                  ..::..                  #%%^«:....
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......:«^% 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.   ##@#%%^«:.
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...:«^%%#@ grip goes  from not being able to let go @#%%^«:...
....:«^%%# all   day  (left)   to  not  caring   to #%%^«:....
.....:«^%%            remember (right).             %%^«:.....
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.......:«^     deepness goes from being several     ^«:.......
......:«^% hundred  meters  down  (left) to  barely %^«:......
.....:«^%%      touching the surface (right).       %%^«:.....
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...:«^%%#@    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).                 ^«:.......
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...:«^%%#@ high otherworldliness and  high  grip is @#%%^«:...
..:«^%%#@#      a particularly effective combo.     #@#%%^«:..
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...:«^%%#@             ... see also ...             @#%%^«:...
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......:«^%              sleep deities               %^«:......
.......:«^               the blackbird              ^«:.......
......:«^%                solipsism                 %^«:......
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...:«^%%#@            ... 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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