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.