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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Sleeping
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 16:23:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 16:23:44 1986
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In article <1973@hao.UUCP>, woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>   How much sleep you need is almost totally a product of how much you *think*
> you need; given the proper motivation, you could probably make do with a lot
> less than you now get. [....]
> [on the topic of the disastrous effects of losing sleep...]
> More likely, though, it's a product of your belief that
> you can't function without X hours of sleep a night. Such beliefs tend
> to become self-fulfilling prophecies.

I disagree strongly with these comments on sleep. I cannot work
effectively on little sleep (meaning 6 hours instead of my
normal 8+) despite years of graduate school trying to do it.
And it does affect my dating habits - it's more important.
Age may have something to do with it.

Peter Ladkin