Does anyone else dread sleep as much as I do? It’s such a waste of time, I could be doing many other entertaining things, or productive things, rather than sleeping.
I hate sleeping. :smack:
I love sleeping. Then again I’m a slacker and feel no guilt over having wasted a whole day doing nothing but gaming and/or reading. Sleep is my best friend. Can I have your sleep, ccwaterback?
Sleep always feels productive to me. There are times when I’ll willingly delay my sleep, such as when talking to or spending time with someone I am fond of, but I always like the sleep itself. I can see how someone might find sleep wasteful, however.
Hell no. Hook me up to Zion and let me power the world’s electric grid or something.
I *love *sleep. Life is what I do in between naps.
I hate the amount of time sleeping takes out of your life. If you sleep 8 hours a day, by the time you’re 60 you will have slept 20 years of it away. On the other hand, going through life without enough sleep is no good either, at least not for me. Why be awake if you’re going to have dulled senses and be in a mental fog? So I sleep as much as I feel like I need to, but I wish I didn’t have to give up the hours.
(I always thought Frank Sinatra’s brain must have released the same chemicals naturally that cocaine produces in the brains of those who take it. He was a high-energy guy with tons of confidence and by all accounts often went two or three days without sleep.)
I have found out though, that if you force yourself to stay up that once you get past that 21st or 22nd hour you begin to revive and for the rest of the day you feel pretty much like you normally do at that same time every day, even going to bed late if that’s your normal routine. But still, you have a mental buzz on for most of the day that I don’t really like so I don’t do it very often.
Oh, God, I wish I could sleep again.
I used to think I just resisted changing states - if I were awake, I’d want to stay up, and if I were asleep, I’d want to stay in bed. Nowadays, if I can actually sleep for more than a few hours at a time, I consider it a blessed reprieve. There are times (like now, for instance) when I’d like nothing more than to be able to sleep, but I can’t.
Well I do feel better when I have had enough sleep, but I hate wasting so much time.
By around 9:30 PM every night I want my blanky and pillow. I like sleepy time a lot! Course I also get up around 5 AM every morning cause I just love the early morning predawn time to drink coffee, read my morning paper and sit on my back porch and watch daylight come. Or, I can go to work at 6 AM and get more done by 8:30 AM than I sometimes can during regular office hours.
Why, yes, I am, in fact, very much a morning person. 
I’m a 9:30 - 5:30 sleeper myself. Don’t get me wrong–I’d love to sleep from 8:00 pm to 9:30 am (sleep is so yummy), but (a) when I try to go to bed at 8:00, SkipMagic comes in and wakes me up just to make fun of me*, (b) getting up at 5:30 allows me to beat the morning rush-hour traffic to work, and (c) because of me, the dogs are awake and eagerly awaiting their morning pee-pee time by 5:30, and knowing that makes it hard for me to sleep later than that (tho’ on the weekends, I do go back to bed after I let them out).
I read somewhere that creative people require more sleep than other people, which is kind of a Catch-22, because–ahem–we “creatives” are constantly torn between precious sleep and staying up until 4 am to create. But I still like the theory. It validates me. 
*Tonight I’m taking him to the airport to catch a 7:30 flight for a 4-day trip. You think I’m not going to bed immediately upon arriving back home? Oh, yeah, baby, four nights of interruption-free early bedtimes!
I have no like or dislike of sleeping. Staying in bed under a nice comforter is nice - sleep does not have to be involved, the cuddliness of the comforter is nice enough.
When I do sleep, it is always restless - I have to try my best to relax before I settle in for the night, or else it’s worse - but I am always restless, and half-awake several times a night. And when this happens, I have to fight not to look at the clock - because then it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy - because I don’t believe I’ll get enough sleep, I won’t get enough sleep. Anyway, I just changed my sleep schedule in the past couple weeks to do midnight to seven, which seems to work better for me than 1 to 8, for some reason. At least now I get up at seven and do some light weight workouts before I go in to work.
Oh - and for some reason I always sleep better when I am away from home - with most people, I believe, it is the opposite.
Susan
I often find myself reluctant to get into bed but once I’m there, it’s bliss. Don’t know what that’s about. I like to sleep in too because that’s when I have my most memerable dreams.
I play video games. So there are times when sleep is a waste of time, and I don’t bother with it. Then you collapse & when you finally wake up and realize all your dreams were CGI and then…
Well I guess I don’t have a point.
I generally don’t sleep more than four or five hours a night. On the other hand, I haven’t really found anything productive or useful to do with my time. Someone once told me that I have insomnia because I want to be awake and not miss anything. Possible, I suppose, I do enjoy it.
waves Hiya, auntie em!! Missed ya. Was afraid Skippy’d buried you in the cellar.
Going to bed is a waste of time. Sleep is fricking valuable. I looooong for actual sleep
I have vivid, colourful dreams, and I have often thought that my sleep, my dreams are my second life. I feel that life is largely about the experiences you have, and my dreams provide me with just as much of those as day-time life. Ideally, dreamlife and daylife enrich each other.
Deep sleep isn’t much fun, because I don’t experience it. That’s why, when I can sleep late, I prefer to have the snoozebuttom wake me every 10 minutes. That semi-sleep-state, cosy and warm, is the best.
Maureen, can you get by on 4-5 hours sleep a night?
I absolutely love sleeping, but I do wish that days were longer, say, 28 hours rather than 24. That way, I wouldn’t feel like I was wasting time while I was sleeping, and I would (theoretically anyway, but probably not in real life) be able to get more done.
Have since I was about 5 or so. With occasional bouts of insomnia thrown in for good measure. There have been times when I’ve gotten a full night of sleep, but usually when I:
A) Have jet lag, and my body is adjusting
B) Take a pill (I hate taking pills…how ironic, as I now seem to be stuck with it)
C) Am sick as a dog, and cannot do anything but lay there and drip fluids.
I love to sleep.
While I’m asleep, I don’t have to worry, work, or feel guilty about not working.
What’s not to like?
(Yes, my life sucks right now. It should get better soon.)
Also, sometimes I wake up in the morning, and, as always, my first thoughts are of work, and suddenly I know the solution to an intractable problem. Sleep is not wasted. You are not conscious, but your brain isn’t inactive, either.
I sleep alot. Can’t help it. I’m just so tired all the time. I sleep from 10pm to 530 am then when I get home I will take another nap for 2 hours, wake up and do some errands if need be, then right back to sleep again.