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.