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.