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.