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.