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.