Why sleep? I could be filking

[khaosworks]

A Pill to Stretch Your Day

It has become a modern cliché: There aren't enough hours in the day. Americans are struggling to balance work and family commitments while trying to find time for a social life and recreation. A growing number of supermarkets, restaurants, gyms and other businesses are accommodating today's 24/7 culture by staying open all night. Not to mention, of course, that the Internet never shuts down. But what if you could do the same?

What if you could take a pill and stretch your day--by skipping sleep?

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

since my seizures happen more frequently when I get less sleep, or when my sleep hours become more irregular, lord knows what this would do. heck, it might even help, if the problem is caused by me not sleeping as soundly as possible (my medication causes some drowsiness). But I'd not be sure I'd want to risk it.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

It would, of course, depend on the longterm effects (he said, at 1:30 in the morning...)

For a convention, you betcha

[camwyn]

No. I need to know that there is a time I can shut down and stop thinking, when it's okay to let my thought processes wander into weirdness and then shut off. I need to have an opportunity at dreaming, even if I don't remember it when I wake up. Just like I refuse to give people my mobile contact information if there's any way at all to avoid it - because I want boundaries between work and home, or vacation and work, or whatever - I want boundaries between my days, and those boundaries are to consist of SLEEP.

It's the same reason I wouldn't take immortality, unless it preserved me in a very good mental and reasonably decent physical state and the alternative was slow horrible death by something that ate at my thought processes and sense of self. Sooner or later, I deserve the chance to stop.

[gingicat]

What zie said. I need the shutdown time, I need the time for my subconscious to process things, and I need the boundary between days.

BRING IT ON

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

I HATE (LOATHE, DESPISE) having to sleep. Sure, sometimes it's nice, but I hate NOT having 4-8 hours every day I can't do anything with. I NEVER have enough time to do things in my life, and I could use an additional 33% of a day to get them done, or just to do fun things. Watch movies, read books, go for a nice night-time walk. Count me IN.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

This would be a real boon to those of us who work off shifts. I miss a lot by sleeping during the day so I can work at night.

I don't want to get a day job, because commuting to a day job anywhere in Boston would be about as big a bucket-o-suck as I could picture myself getting into voluntarily.

Re: Sleep

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Sleep is my most treasured hobby.
There's nothing nicer than snuggling in my blankets with my teddy bear and being able to not think.
My mind is stuck in a constant stream of thought which usually only serves to paralyze me from actually acting on any of my ideas or dreams. When I sleep, all that drifts away.

If I took that pill even once I might forget how much I need sleep.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

I might want it. I don't get enough sleep as it is, so having something that in someway made up for that would be good. But I also dread what it would do to the work-week for a lot of people. So I'm not sure it's actually a good idea.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I think the pill has its purposes, but again, the researchers caution against long-term effects from losing sleep.

The part of the article that got me was about employers possibly pressuring folks to take the stuff and pull all-nighters. I've already had to take time off from work due to stress and lack of sleep. This scares me.