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.