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.