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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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.--††††££¶ 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 ##¶§£^†--.
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..---^^§¶¶          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              #¶§^^†-...
.--†^£§¶##              the blackbird               ##¶§£^†--.
.--†^£§¶##                 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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