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.