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.