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.