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.