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From: booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Sleeping
Message-ID: <1281@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 01:32:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 01:32:58 1986
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In article <5162@kestrel.ARPA> ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) writes:
>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.
>
I agree with Peter. When I was 20, I could go 20 hours and then, literally lose
my eyesight. This is 1 hour after my ears started ringing. Toxins build up and
mess up the works. Now, I am 29 and I can go 18 hours before gibbering inco-
herently. I have had food poisoning many times and the effects of no sleep
are similar (to me). I feel poisoned. Dating is definitely out of the question
when I can't see, hear or digest my dinner. When you are down-to-the-bone tired
sleep is *definitely* more fun than sex.

E
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The opinions are my own and do not reflect the management of my household :-)