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.