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.