I find myself most often tempted to deprive my body of sleep at night. Come morning, I find indulgence in sleep the more tempting option. Doesn't that seem an easy fix? Why is that an issue?
Why do I dread going to sleep and then dread waking up? Can't I embrace both and still find my time balanced?
My immediate response is that I just wish I didn't have to sleep so much. I wish I could stay up late and get up early and spend all my time doing the things I do while awake (i.e., wasting time). I stay up late because I want to keep blogging stupid, useless words from my head. I don't want to get up because I actually need more sleep in order to function. It's always been easier to make myself stay up than to make myself wake up.
Do you ever wonder what life would be like if we could just go to bed when we wanted and wake up when we woke up while still working a full 8 hours (or whatever schedule your continued existence requires)? I wonder what percentage of the population would end up being nocturnal. I know of at least two in my family who already practically sleep all day (classes or not) and stay up all night.
yeah...
2 comments:
its because you dont want yer entire day to be taken up with work. you want to spend SOME part of the day doing something you like. well, nighttime is the only time to do it when u got a day job. in fact, it usually takes 2-3 hrs or so to eat dinner (counting prep time, eating time, sleepy time, etc). so you git home from work at 5-6, and then yer not done with dinner until 8, and then u pretty much need to be in bed by 10 (if yer getting up at 6). so that leaves a mere 2 hours to enjoy yer life each day. naturally, u try to extend that 2 hours . . . .
Having sons who at various time in their life have had weeks of non committed time due to the lovely school schedules and between job vacations, I truly think there are people whose natural sleep cycles would keep them up all night and sleep all day. Even though this behavior is usually associated with vampires, it also seems to occur quite naturally in the human species. The problem with it all is the rest of the world does not work that way. Employers and teaches and other authority figures with expectations tend to be very unforgiving, I have also observed that it is very difficult to get back on a false sleep track once you have lived your natural one for weeks. djdm MOM
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