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.