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.