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.