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.