If we didn’t need to sleep, cwPartner and I would never have an excuse to end up nekkid in bed together.
Now, if it were possible to dispense with the need for bathroom breaks (Depends and leg bags don’t count), I wouldn’t mind.
It’s dark and you have both eaten and mated during daylight; provided that a safe nest can be procured, you’re better off resting - you’ll burn less calories that way; you can’t find food anyway and you’re less likely to stumble across, or attract the attention of a nocturnal predator.
BTW, there was another recent thread on this one; my own view is that I’d like to retain the option of sleeping when I felt like it, but be able to remain awake and lucid indefinitely if I wanted; by choice I don’t sleep much anyway, but could often do with a few more usable hours of being awake.
I’m in the middle of a really obnoxious cold right now, and it may not be absolutely necessary, but being able to sleep a cold away is something I could never give up. There are some times when being awake just isn’t worth it.
I’ve actually put a lot of thought into this subject in the past. At first (although I think this may be a little bit from watching “Phenomenon”) I thought it would be great to have all this extra time of not needing to sleep. I would read so many books and become unbelievably intelligent. (Also, finish assignments.) BUT if nobody needed to sleep, then i think the intellect level would rise in general, and mine will still be comparitively normal. Also, crime would rise and mall hours would increase meaning I would have to work more. SO I decided that it was just me who didn’t need to sleep, meaning I become a genius, read lots of books, learn languages, play instruments, rent out entire video shops etc. BUT this left me with the problem, what would you do after sex when your partner is asleep? And just in general when you want to lie there with somebody and fall asleep together. Or those days when there is just that little to do that sleep is actually the only option. Or when your sick, or hungover, and the only way to escape is to sleep and hope its better in the morning.
So, I decided on this idea that I could not sleep, and it had absolutely no negative effect on me, but I could also fall asleep at ease, basically as a time waster.
Genius.
yes, but your life is totally at the mercy of that nocturnal predator. If you could keep your senses functioning without sleep, you would have the greatest evolutionary advantage possible–survival.