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.