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altfriday5:
1. How many hours do you normally sleep at night? These days, 6 to 9, depending on whether I have to set an alarm or not.
2. Do you wish you had more time to sleep? Or do you wish that you slept less? More time or less need; either would be good. I'm not sure I really wish I had more waking hours in the day, though, so much as I wish they coincided better with other people's.
3. Do you like sleeping? It's kinda nice. Dreams are fun, and that warm comfortable falling-asleep sensation is a pleasure I'm learning to appreciate more these days.
4. What is the longest continuous period that you have spent awake? Why did you do it? I've stayed awake as long as 28 hours, I think, writing papers on various occasions. I don't seem to be able to go longer than that, though, without crashing hard. And cognitive impairment starts to kick in around the 12-hour mark anyway.
5. If you were offered the chance to eliminate sleep from your life, with absolutely no negative physical or psychological side effects, would you take it? Why or why not? What if this chance was only possible for you, and not for any of your friends or family, or society at large? If it was for everybody, I'd definitely take it--not to eliminate the need for sleep but to eliminate the conflicts between different people's diurnal cycles. In other words, to make the world a better place for us night owls. If it was just for me, I'd probably take it, because having more time to get work done would simplify my life at least as much as not sleeping through business hours would. The only drawback would be the boredom potential, but I imagine I'd find things to fill in my time with, especially if I were functioning at the much higher level I would be if I no longer needed the restful sleep that I'm not getting anyway.
Of course, this is assuming we're talking about eliminating the need for sleep. If it were just a question of never being able to sleep again, then for me that would translate to being brain-fogged all the time and not being able to do anything about it (since that's my natural state anyway), so no.
I think I may need to make a habit of this just to get writing something on a more regular basis.
On the other hand, I'm not sure why I feel I ought to write anything here at all on a regular basis. I just know that I do.
altfriday5:1. How many hours do you normally sleep at night? These days, 6 to 9, depending on whether I have to set an alarm or not.
2. Do you wish you had more time to sleep? Or do you wish that you slept less? More time or less need; either would be good. I'm not sure I really wish I had more waking hours in the day, though, so much as I wish they coincided better with other people's.
3. Do you like sleeping? It's kinda nice. Dreams are fun, and that warm comfortable falling-asleep sensation is a pleasure I'm learning to appreciate more these days.
4. What is the longest continuous period that you have spent awake? Why did you do it? I've stayed awake as long as 28 hours, I think, writing papers on various occasions. I don't seem to be able to go longer than that, though, without crashing hard. And cognitive impairment starts to kick in around the 12-hour mark anyway.
5. If you were offered the chance to eliminate sleep from your life, with absolutely no negative physical or psychological side effects, would you take it? Why or why not? What if this chance was only possible for you, and not for any of your friends or family, or society at large? If it was for everybody, I'd definitely take it--not to eliminate the need for sleep but to eliminate the conflicts between different people's diurnal cycles. In other words, to make the world a better place for us night owls. If it was just for me, I'd probably take it, because having more time to get work done would simplify my life at least as much as not sleeping through business hours would. The only drawback would be the boredom potential, but I imagine I'd find things to fill in my time with, especially if I were functioning at the much higher level I would be if I no longer needed the restful sleep that I'm not getting anyway.
Of course, this is assuming we're talking about eliminating the need for sleep. If it were just a question of never being able to sleep again, then for me that would translate to being brain-fogged all the time and not being able to do anything about it (since that's my natural state anyway), so no.
I think I may need to make a habit of this just to get writing something on a more regular basis.
On the other hand, I'm not sure why I feel I ought to write anything here at all on a regular basis. I just know that I do.
