# "Sleep! Sleeeeep!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060 "2003-07-08T19:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/21 "2003-07-08T20:50:12Z")
Ear plugs and a few heavy objects to throw at the person telling you these vicious things. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/22 "2003-07-08T21:03:13Z")
mmmm. Sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Plankspanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Plankspanker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plankspanker)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/23 "2003-07-08T23:28:48Z")
i really want to sleep, but in the last month i’ve been sleeping 4 or so hours a night, and not thru choice. i’ll go to bed when i begin to feel tired (maybe 2 am) and lie there for like maybe 2 hours trying to sleep, then get woken up at 7 or 8 by my mum. I WANT SLEEP!!! i rarely dream these days (i used to cos i remembered every single one), but when i do it’s usually bad, like a few weeks ago i had one about killing the girl who messed me about (see the bbq pit thread by me), and i wake up screaming… anyone know of anything STRONG that’ll work, but not valium? ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/24 "2003-07-08T23:49:57Z")
Sigh…sleeping is such a wonderful activity. I can sleep through absolutely anything, including my two younger sisters playing video games in my room. All this schoolwork has been getting in the way though ☹ ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/25 "2003-07-08T23:52:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Oh, yeah? > > Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night _just so I can go to sleep again!_ \*\* Oh, I _love_ that! It’s best when you wake up just after dawn, and it’s way too early to actually get up, so you get to fall back asleep _in the daytime!_ That’s magnificent. ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/26 "2003-07-08T23:59:32Z")
count me in! the most loved (and hated) moment is when i wake up in the morning, dreadfuly look at the time then go back to dreamland smiling because i have an hour or so more to sleep… ZZZZzzzZZZzzzZZzzz But i also feel like i have wasted a good part of the day if i don’t get up before 11am. At one point during college i was so exhausted everyday that i went to sleep at 9pm (usual bedtime was 11)… ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/27 "2003-07-09T00:18:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I love sleeping. If there were an Olympic Sleeping team, I would be a gold medalist. \*\* For years now, I’ve been proposing (half jokingly) that siesta be recognized as an Olympic event. I’m also one who prefers not to get up before the crack of noon on the week-end (and managed a job where I’m expected at work only in the afternoon :D). Unfortunately, the downside is that I’m a “slow waker”. I chew people’s head off if they speak to me in the two hours after I get up (or after my second mug of coffee, whichever comes last 😉 ). ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/28 "2003-07-09T00:33:55Z")
I used to be like that, but then I became an insomniac. I miss long pointless sleeps. ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/29 "2003-07-09T02:11:08Z")
Ahh, sleep. For a while, after I lost my job and before I moved out of the apartment, I could go to bed at 5AM, and sleep all the way 'till 3PM or so. Just me, my bed, and the cat. Ahh, life was good. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/30 "2003-07-09T05:52:41Z")
My darling Marcie can outsleep the lot of you, and often does. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/31 "2003-07-09T06:07:06Z")
Most of ya’s is pikers! For me a good night’s sleep starts at 10 hours and optimizes somewhere around 14. I mumble semi-coherently and stare at the wall for another couple of hours after waking if my family doesn’t snap me aware with their laughter at my expense. I am _not_ cute and quit pokin’ me! What’s best of all is a nap though. A warm summer afternoon in a hammock or snuggled under a floofy down comforter in winter, naps is best. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/32 "2003-07-09T06:09:29Z")
I don’t want to disagree with anyone here - to each her own and all that - but I hate sleep. What a waste of time! I mean, if I could get away with not doing it for a week when I was busy - like showering or brushing my teeth - I’d be fine. But I have to sleep like at least once every 48 hours. I also have the stupidest dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/33 "2003-07-09T06:15:03Z")
I can sleep all day, and still sleep some more. Usually I will go to bed (during the summer) around 4:30 in the morning, and not wake up until 2:00 - 5:30 in the afternoon. During school, however, I always get up at 5:45 in the morning and go to bed around 10:00 - 12:00 at night. I could still sleep more anytime, but I don’t like to get out of bed when the sun is beginning toset. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/34 "2003-07-09T06:17:06Z")
I am getting sleepy just reading this thread. Although I love to sleep, I can stay awake all night & morning for a good party… Call me fickle. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/35 "2003-07-09T07:13:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*I don’t want to disagree with anyone here - to each her own and all that - but I hate sleep. What a waste of time! I mean, if I could get away with not doing it for a week when I was busy - like showering or brushing my teeth - I’d be fine. But I have to sleep like at least once every 48 hours. I also have the stupidest dreams. \*\* Ditto, only I actually do stay up because my brain is so Hell bent on doing everything that needs to get done ASAP. And I can’t sleep when I _want_ to. Which is starting to mean I need alcohol, muscle relaxers, or something like lorazepam to actually relax enough to sleep these days. Very not good. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/36 "2003-07-09T12:52:01Z")
I am the Eddie the Eagle of sleep. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/37 "2003-07-09T13:56:59Z")
I love to sleep, but I REALLY love to nap. Not just any nap either, I love naps on the beach, under a nice shady umbrella, breeze blowing, surf crashing, salt drying on my skin. Everything stars to drift away, sounds become smaller, and I’m napping. That does it, I’m spending this weekend at the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/38 "2003-07-09T14:28:50Z")
Sleep is my favorite Saturday activity. My husband and I will go out on Friday nights and stay up LATE! Then we sleep until around noon on Saturday and he gets up and makes big breakfast. Hashbrowns (with onions), bacon, gravy, biscuits, eggs and sausage. We pig out, then we go back to the couches and lounge. We sleep on and off until probably 6pm. Then we start getting ready to do something for Saturday night. haha We drive our friends crazy. Especially our friends who have kids and can’t sleep in on Saturdays. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/39 "2003-07-09T15:08:25Z")
My ideal Saturday consists of waking up at around 4:00 p.m. and eating dinner, then laying around, maybe seeing a movie or reading during that time, and going to bed again at about 11:00 p.m. Rinse and repeat on Sunday, but add internet instead of the movie or reading. And change the bedtime to 10:00. I just wish it were easy for me to fall asleep. I have to lie in bed for about an hour, minimum, before I can finally doze off. ---
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060/40 "2003-07-09T15:33:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Breezy \* > **…we sleep until around noon on Saturday and he gets up and makes big breakfast. Hashbrowns (with onions), bacon, gravy, biscuits, eggs and sausage…** Long sleeps and big breakfast are the ultimate start to the weekend. Sometimes, after work, I get home at 4 PM, and I go to sleep right away, waking up at 630 AM the next morning. That’s alot of sleep, which many people would say is a waste of time (which it is, really), but who cares. Sleep feels good, I like feeling good - I like sleep. A few years ago, I’d put black bath towels across my windows, cover the crack under the door, throw a shirt across my alarm clock and VCR clock - basically covering any source of light so that my room was as dark as possible. Lemmetellya - sleeping in pure darkness makes a difference. **THE BEST KIND OF SLEEP** - wearing headphones, listening to some ambient track over and over (I recommend **The Orb - passing of time** ), opening your eyes slowly about a dozen times through the night while wondering what’s going on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-sleeeeep/187060.md?page=3)