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.