Thursday, February 2nd, 2006, 11:54 am
Daily Side Note on Sleep
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UE to an important paper deadline I stayed awake for 30 hours straight yesterday. Ultimately, and oddly enough, 3 hours of sleep were enough after that. They compensated for the long procrastination of bedtime and rejuvenated the body fully. This cannot be healthy, can it?
The many issues that pertain to sleep and rest have always intrigued me. I even participated in sleep disorder newsgroup where I could engage in conversations with experts in the field. I am usually able to catch up with sleep entirely while travelling. I could never quite identify a pattern which would indicate how much sleep is truly necessary on a given day. ‘Luxury sleep’ or excessive sleep is also worth investigating. It seems as though many individuals tend to oversleep and still remain tired. One’s daytime occupation definitely plays a role too.
I once wrote about my own personal way of falling asleep immediately. This seems to have become a fairly popular Web page. It is amazing how little we think about an occupation that makes up about one third of our lives.
