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.