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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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.,«**£¤### 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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.,«**£¤### 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 ###¤£**«,.
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..,«**£¤## high otherworldliness  and high  grip is ##¤£**«,..
.,«**£¤###     a particularly effective combo.      ###¤£**«,.
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.,«**£¤###              sleep deities               ###¤£**«,.
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.,«**£¤###                 solipsism                ###¤£**«,.
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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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