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...~=†@#£@                  ======                  @£#@†=~...
..~=†@#£@#               ... sleep ...              #@£#@†=~..
.~=†@#£@##                  ~~==~~                  ##@£#@†=~.
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...~=†@#£@ 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. @†=~......
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....~=†@#£                  ..~~..                  £#@†=~....
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..~=†@#£@# deeper than  death  is  to be  alive and #@£#@†=~..
.~=†@#£@## asleep. it is death  if it was temporary ##@£#@†=~.
..~=†@#£@#             and rejuvenating.            #@£#@†=~..
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....~=†@#£                  ..~~..                  £#@†=~....
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......~=†@ 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.           #@£#@†=~..
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..~=†@#£@#                  ..~~..                  #@£#@†=~..
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....~=†@#£ when  you  sleep all sound  is internal. £#@†=~....
.....~=†@# when   you  sleep  your  brain  shrinks. #@†=~.....
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.....~=†@#                  ..~~..                  #@†=~.....
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...~=†@#£@ 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).            #@†=~.....
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.....~=†@#     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).                 £#@†=~....
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......~=†@ revitalization goes  from  a  feeling of @†=~......
.....~=†@# not having slept at  all (left) to being #@†=~.....
....~=†@#£ full  of   energy   and  maybe  optimism £#@†=~....
...~=†@#£@                 (right).                 @£#@†=~...
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...~=†@#£@ high otherworldliness and  high grip  is @£#@†=~...
....~=†@#£     a particularly effective combo.      £#@†=~....
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.....~=†@#             ... see also ...             #@†=~.....
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..~=†@#£@#              sleep deities               #@£#@†=~..
.~=†@#£@##               the blackbird              ##@£#@†=~.
..~=†@#£@#                 solipsism                #@£#@†=~..
...~=†@#£@                                          @£#@†=~...
....~=†@#£                  ======                  £#@†=~....
.....~=†@#            ... furthermore ...           #@†=~.....
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....~=†@#£ 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.          #@†=~.....
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