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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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.......~-^ deeper than  death is to  be  alive  and ^-~.......
........~- asleep. it  is death if it was temporary -~........
.........~             and rejuvenating.            ~.........
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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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.....~-^†& when you sleep  all sound  is  internal. &†^-~.....
....~-^†&& when  you  sleep  your   brain  shrinks. &&†^-~....
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..~-^†&&£#                  ..~~..                  #£&&†^-~..
.~-^†&&£##                                          ##£&&†^-~.
..~-^†&&£# if you wish to measure sleep, use  these #£&&†^-~..
...~-^†&&£    four quantifiers:: grip, deepness,    £&&†^-~...
....~-^†&&    otherworldiness and revitalization.   &&†^-~....
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......~-^† 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).      ..........
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..........    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                ..........
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..........           ... 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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