..~;*@@### ###@@*;~..
...~;*@@## ##@@*;~...
....~;*@@# #@@*;~....
.....~;*@@ @@*;~.....
......~;*@ @*;~......
.......~;* ~~;;~~ *;~.......
........~; ... 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. @@*;~.....
......~;*@ @*;~......
.......~;* *;~.......
........~; ;~........
.........~ ~.........
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