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.