Big waste of time. A nice 30-minute nap would do it as far as I’m concerned, but no, I have to spend eight friggin’ hours dead to the world. Stupid as hell. I LIKE the sensation of going to sleep, and I like waking up feeling well-rested, but I dont’ know why I have to spend eight friggin hours to get those mild pleasures.
And I just can’t understand “enjoying” sleep.
If you’re asleep how do you know you’re enjoying it? 
-Going to bed is the end of the day. Nothing more can be achieved. Game over. I don’t like this feeling
- I love the night. We generally have to sleep at night. So, sleeping prevents me from enjoying it as I would want to. Then I wake up, it’s the morning, and I dislike the morning.
-I mostly have only unpleasant dreams. So, whether or not I remember them, I know I’m going to have a bad time while sleeping.
-I rarely feel a strong need to sleep. I’m just tired and know I need some sleep. If people feel every evening this strong urge to lay down and sleep that I only very occassionnally feel, I can understand why they like sleeping.
-It’s a waste of time. A huge one.
-I don’t find particularily appealing the concept of laying uncouscious for hours in a row.
-Though I’m not sure of it, I suspect I associate sleep and death.
YES - for us night people, the whole world works against us. I want to stay up late, and I have to get up early.
Thanks you have helped me understand this a bit better, and I do agree with some of it. Like the enjoyment some of you get while falling asleep, then waking, so much so that one night I tryed to set an alarm for every 20 minutes (it didn’t work out so well). That alone doesn’t require 7-9 hrs.
Did you ever watch a TV program, then a commercial comes on and though you have enjoyed it, you have no flipin’ idea what you were watching?
My mum has terrible nightmares most nights. So bad that she often wakes up too scared to move. This makes sleeping unpleasant for her.
She has seen many different doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists about this over the decades, but the problem remains.
The constant “BAA BAA BAAAAAA”, the high cost of hay (they turn piles of cash into piles of shit), the chewing of the cud, the running around the yard with lambs hanging out thier vag, the constant dropping of marbles-- I could go on all day!
No, no, no. The real question is, What is the beef some sleepy people have with Sleepy LaBeef?
Not me. I can sleep all damned day if someone lets me. There’s nothing more glorious than stretching under your warm covers, wishing you could purr like a cat, and snoozing off into la-la land.
I welcome sleep with opened paws.
I love to sleep! Why? I am one of the few who is able to be aware that I am sleeping and be aware that I am dreaming. Sometimes, I can even control the dreams.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050805.html
My dreams are always very vivid and I have a very high percentage of recall of what I dreamed, after waking up. There have been single dreams that I have remembered for weeks, months, and years. Sometimes, I scold myself for not taking the time to journal them.
If there’s any life necessity I would like to be permanently rid of, with no negative consequences, it would be all forms of elimination! Going to the bathroom is a total waste of time! (pun intended) 
Ooh, good call! Mostly. Although it does give one an excuse to go sit and read for a few minutes every day.
I hate sleeping, so much so that I stay awake until I’m literally about to collapse before I usually go to bed. I resent the fact that I can only control my body to a point, until exhaustion really sets in. IMO it’s much easier to ignore hunger and go without food until it’s convenient. or I want to eat.
Speaking of, I dislike eating too, to the extent that I have to do it, but at least you can do other things at the same time so it doesn’t feel wasted.
Oh yes! Just that nice, snuggly feeling of being wrapped in soft, warm quilts and sinking into your mattress, aaaah…it’s like being in a warm, snuggly little coccoon.
Now, I would be open to the option of being able to turn OFF sleep every once in a while if one needed to. But no way would I give it up entirely. It’s just so nice and soothing to be in that half-way state between sleep and waking.
I hate sleep because :
It eats up so much time.
I prefer night to day; instead, I’m unconscious.
I almost never remember dreams; most of them are nightmares.
Waking up feels like climbing out of a vat of glue.
I’m not really alert for at least an hour afterwards.
What’s so great about being human ?
For you; I’ve never found them better than annoying.
I don’t like the need to sleep, eat, eliminate or rest; if I could, I’d stick my mind in an android and donate my meat body to science or organ transplants.
I’m like you, bzwilak - I have an incredibly fulfilling, active dream life, and I love sleeping. I have been so many things, done so many things, had so many experiences in my dreams, it’s just fantastic. I was killed by being run through by a sword once, once I was the Queen of the Underworld, many times I’ve been on other planets and in space, I’ve painted beautiful pictures, I’ve been madly in love, I’ve learned to breathe water, I’ve created episodes of my favourite shows and experienced them as a cast member - I wouldn’t give that up for anything. I didn’t realize there were so many people who aren’t living such a rich unconscious life.
p.s. - In the interest of fighting ignorance, I’ve hit the ground in the falling dream many times now.
For me, I’d be happy if the only sleep I HAD to have was that half-hour between supervenusfreak getting up to go to work and MY alarm going off. It’s the only part of my sleep that I can actually enjoy, because it’s more like a 3/4 sleep. I’m partly conscious, but only barely, such that time is completely distorted and 1/2 hour feels like 3 or 4 hours, and I’m slightly aware of just how langorous my arms and legs feel, and just how warm it is under the covers compared to the cool fall air coming in the window. When I lived alone, before I met Dwight, I used to use a double alarm clock and set the first one for 1/2 hour before I had to actually get up. I love that 1/2 hour so much…
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Because being in class 22 hours a week, doing about 30 hours of homework a week, and working 10 hours a week doesn’t leave a whole lot of time. If I didn’t waste as much time sleeping, I could do better in my classes, learn more, hang out with friends more, work more and therefore earn more money…instead, I accomplish nothing for 5-6 hours every night.
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I’ve never slept well. It takes me an average of an hour to fall asleep most nights, I sleep fitfully, and despise the groggy feeling in the morning when the alarm goes off.
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Dreams are, with very few exceptions, extraordinarily unpleasant for me.
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Ever had a panic attack because crap, it’s 2 AM and I’m still nowhere close to being asleep and I have class at 9 and then work until 5 and what is wrong with me that I can’t even sleep like a normal person?! It happens to me enough to make me dread trying to sleep.