Last week I had a ton of tests, and the marathon oftests concluded with a multivariable test today, along with a draft for english. I got 3 hours of sleep last night and I'm shocked I am not yet tired. I don't know if its the sip of coffee I took this morning, or the beautiful day that is keeping me so awake. Or, maybe I've just become accustomed to not sleeping that much. I kindof like the idea of the later. If I didn't have to sleep I wouldn't have to. Think of all the things you could do if you didn't need to sleep. It would be so easy to get all the hw done, studying, and still have an awesome social life, and do any activity outside of school work. There's so much stuff I'd liketo do if I had the time to. Like play the violin more/ join theVirginia Tech orchestra, draw/water color, do numerous arts and crafts, hang out with friends, do two-a-day work outs every day, volunteer, the possibilities are limitless. But, since I kind of half to sleep, I have to choose to only do the activies that are most important to me. I've even tried to not sleep, or at least sleep as less as possible, but I found that my body forces me to sleep eve if I don't want to. I can fall asleep anywhere if I'm tired and especially if theres a monotone voice. I'm typically always tired too, because I don't sleep in, the latest ever I'd sleep is 9 (unless I didn't go to be till 6 or 7) and so I never catch up on sleep because I stay up late too.
In all honesty though I think the reason why I'm really not tired today is because this weekend and monday I kept falling asleep a lot due to the exhaustion of lack of sleep from the previous week. Monday I wasn't really all that tired but I fell asleep doing work, and went to bed relatively early around midnight, and actually got almost 8 hrs of sleep. This weekend my high school friends came to visit too, and I felt bad for falling a sleep on them around 2 on Friday night. After they left Saturday, I practically collapsed on my bed from walking around all day/sleep deprivation, and with out intending to, slept for 2 hours. That nap though was really beneficial because I didn't really go to bed till 3 that night and got up before 9. Monday, I didn't have too much homework so I went to bed around midnight then as well. Anyways, those are my thoughts on sleep.
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I honestly have no idea how you function on so little sleep. I'll miss a few hours of sleep one night and it will affect me the whole next week I can't handle it.
ReplyDeleteYeah...this is an interesting topic. You've heard of people who have trained themselves to get by on little sleep, right? Like monks and stuff...maybe you could learn to be like one of those people.
ReplyDeleteSometimes being sleep-deprived can make you kind of happy and wacky, which I think you might have been while writing this...
Personally, I need 8 hours of sleep at least or I feel totally *off* (this means I usually feel totally off :))
The thing I wonder is whether there is really a lot of variation in people as to how much sleep they need. If so, I, like, you, feel unlucky that i have to sleep so much.