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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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........^~ 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 &£=*~^....
.....^~*=£                 (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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