To Sleep or Not to Sleep, that is the Question!

[loracs]

From the altfriday5 via serenejournal:
1. How many hours do you normally sleep at night?
My sleep is very disjointed. I often crash around 9 or 10 pm for a few hours, get up and then don't make it back to bed until 3 am or later. I get up most mornings between 6 am to 7 am.

2. Do you wish you had more time to sleep? Or do you wish that you
slept less?
More time. If I could just get to bed by 11 pm and THEN get up at 6 am I'd feel like I got real sleep.

3. Do you like sleeping?
love it!

4. What is the longest continuous period that you have spent awake? Why
did you do it?
A little over 24 hours. I think that was when stonebender was in the emergency room a few years ago. 12 of those hours were spent in the hospital.

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?
Some days I wish I really could go without sleep. There's never enough hours in the day to get everything done. On the other hand, I would miss dreaming. And maybe I wouldn't get as much done as I think since there would be hours and hours when I couldn't make too much noise and there's only so many 24 hour stores to go to. I guess the answer is no. But I wish that on the sleep I do get I would have "no negative physical or psychological side effects."

Now I must go take a nap - these questions just tuckered me out!

Comments

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

how did you get this posted with no picture at the top?

I just had a sleepy hour with my hand on the mouse and my brain in flatline land.

my answers:

1. 7-8 hours when I don't have to get up to an alarm, less on "school days"

2. more, so I could get my beauty sleep

3. I like it, except when I wake up with a sore back, then it makes me mad that I have to sleep.

4. recently I went about 21 hours. no darn good reason, just couldn't get sleepy.

5. I like the break from awakeland, I like dreaming. but I would love it if I could get the real deep sleep while sitting in a recliner (again the damn back...)

[loracs.livejournal.com]

I'm so sleepy I just forgot to add one. I don't have a default picture. Or maybe it's LJ. I just received an error message that said there may be some weirdness including no userpic or a different one than you choose.

[dbubley.livejournal.com]

I think sleep is damn near sacred. When you want it or need it, it's better than food or sex. Except on weekends, I probably get abouy 5-7 hours a night, bu I'm trying to shoot for ten.

I would love to not need sleep, but I would never, ever willingly give up the ability to choose sleep. It's the greatest means of escape I know.