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.