You know, I
often see posts bouncing around social media about how much people love to
sleep. While I agree with the associated sentiment that it can be very
challenging to get out of bed in the mornings, I must say that I’ve always
found sleep itself to be a dreadfully dull, yet unfortunately necessary, waste
of time.
To function
at optimal efficiency, the average human needs eight hours of sleep per day.
That’s a full third of the day where we basically have to shut down and do
nothing! From a young age, I always found that to be exceedingly frustrating.
Think of how much more we could accomplish if we didn’t have to sleep!
As to it
being enjoyable, I recognize that everyone has different experiences in life,
but how can it be so? It begins with lying down and doing nothing for a long
enough period of time that your body goes into sleep mode – boring! This is
followed by a period of unconsciousness accompanied by dreams – which can range
from amazing to horrible, but also most of which end up not getting remembered
once you wake up. To be fair, dreams can sometimes be enjoyable, but it’s
erratic and inconsistent enough that it can’t really be used to define sleep as
enjoyable. Then, after that, you wake up and have to get up – which, as has
already been mentioned, can be quite the struggle.
So, how is
it that sleep can be defined as enjoyable? It eats up time that could better be
used elsewhere, only erratically contains entertainment, and is otherwise a
whole lot of nothing. This really is quite the puzzler for me.
Sadly, I
don’t have the time to figure it out – as I must now go to sleep.
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